... back to the beginning of the decade, the dollar bottomed in 1 980 , two years before the 1 982 bottom in stocks. In 1 988 and 1 989 the dollar and stocks rose pretty much in tan-dem. The peak in the ... stocks outperform gold by a wide margin (1 980 to 1 985 and 1 988 through the first half of 1 989 ). During periods of rising inflation (the 1970s and the period from1 986 through the end of 1 987 ), gold ... in the summer of 1 986 , whereas the Foodstuffs didn't bottom out until the first quarter of 1 987 . The Foodstuffs, on the other hand, peaked in mid-1 988 anddropped sharply for a year. The...