Commodity prices including that of silver are constantly in flux but one thing is certain: The cost of bread has been remarkably constant in silver terms over the last 150+ years
The old-time daily "Silver Fix" of the London Metal Exchange is gone. Established in 1897 to facilitate the exchange of metal between buyers and sellers, it had received some bad press in recent years. Hues of undue manipulations surfaced, rightly or wrongly and the old-time system finally gave way to a new electronic system of matching supply and demand.
