tle: “LongTermCommodityGraphs”

thor: “Burt Rothberg”

te: “2016-05-04”

tput: html_document

On all these graphs:

• All commodities in the World Bank yearly database are graphed. This includes some price series that do not differ much, or only differ by a relatively small arbitrage.
• Most of the series begin in 1960. For those that begin later, I started when they begin (duh).
• The Y-axis is the deflated price of the commodity, using the latest month as the basis. All prices are adjusted by the US PCE deflator and the value of the $US relative to other major currencies.
• The X-axis is time.
• The last point on the line is the current price, or as current as I could get.