[Atlas Sneezed]

My point is that if there were a gold standard, we wouldn’t see such fluctuations and volatility.

Besides, do you get alarmed when Wal-Mart raises the price of a can of beans from 79 cents to 99 cents?

[expat_panama]

My point is that if there were a gold standard, we wouldn’t see such fluctuations and volatility.

The point of looking at historical prices is to understand what is, and that when we had a gold standard we did in fact "see such fluctuations and volatility."