Commodity Prices Since 1800

Mineweb.net has published a chart - constructed by BHP Billiton - about the inflation-adjusted development of commodity prices in the last 200 years. Surprise, surprise, commodities were never cheaper than in 2000/1, shows the chart made from data from the US All Commodities Producer Price Index, US Consumer Price Inflation, US Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, and the Colonial Times.