[boston_clone]

I think you may have misread "fiat" as "flat" :)

Hmm, even the kerning on my browser makes them look fairly similar.

F-I-A-T versus F-L-A-T

Hope this helps!

[throw0101a]

> I think you may have misread "fiat" [with-i] as "flat" [with-l] :)

I did not. The data I linked to shows that there is no historical, long-term correlation between M2 and gold prices.