Free Historical Commodity Prices in txt?
At indexmundi, they have some historical data which you can grab from their charts: It only has a price on a monthly basis (at least for the 25 year chart). It has a number of things, like barley, oranges, crude oil, aluminum, beef,  etc.    I grabbed the data for 25 years of banana prices and here's an excerpt (in dollars per metric ton): That page did not appear to have historical prices for gold, though. "You can find gold historical prices on the kitco site. See the ""View Data"" button." Goldprice.org has different currencies and historical data. I think silverprice.org also has historical data.
If the fact that currency is based on fiat, something that has been the case with currency somewhere on Earth since the Tang Dynasty of China discovered paper money a long, long time ago, leaves you up in arms, then I shudder to think what an explanation of how the price of money can be derived from plotting IS and LM together and extending it's meeting point into the money market to determine the price of currency would do to your notion of control by powerful offices in government.  My good sir, have you ever considered that YOU might be the smug moron?  That YOU might be the one who just found out what everyone in the room already learned years ago and lack the foundation the rest of us have to understand that information in context?  That it might be YOU who are uninformed?  I'll quote you right here:  &gt;people who have no clue what the fuck they are talking about go off and lecture other people, bringing up facts that have no thought behind them, and are merely definitions posing as an argument. Making a statement, then getting corrected, then coming back and simply lengthening the original answer is not an argument.  &gt;I'll say it again: our currency is fiat. It is backed by nothing  You don't seem to understand just what it is backed by.  It is backed by trust, steady demand, and the assurance of powerful national and international bodies.  As is the price of everything, including gold and literally every other commodity on the planet.  Your utter shock and outrage upon discovering this minute fact does not indicate a revolutionary zeitgeist or that you are some kind of free spirit, it indicates that you are uneducated on the context of basic and well understood facts that the rest of the educated world is already caught up on. "For free, 5 years is somewhat available, and 10 years is available to a limited extent on money.msn.com. Some are calculated for you. Gurufocus is also a treasure trove of value statistics that do in fact reach back 10 years. From the Gurufocus site, the historical P/E can be calculated by dividing their figure for ""Earnings per Share"" by the share price at the time.  It looks like their EPS figure is split adjusted, so you'll have to use the split adjusted share price. ""Free cash"", defined in the comments as money held at the end of the year, can be found on the balance sheet as ""Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities""; however, the more common term is ""free cash flow"", and its growth rate can be found at the top of the gurufocus financials page." A pure free market for agricultural commodities would be disastrous. Markets respond efficiently but not instantaneously. Shifts in he supply and demand of labor and capital investment are particularly slow. If a large percentage of corn farmers go under one fall there have to be new farmers/capitalists picking up the slack by next spring or there will be insufficirnt production that cant be recovered for an entire year.   Society can't withstand massive losses of commodity production, strategic reserves can help absorb the damage but youre still paying for innefficient production as grains can only be stored for so long and need replacing on an annual basis. You need a source of delisted historical data. Such data is typically only available from paid sources. According to my records, AULT (Ault Inc) began as an OTC stock in the 1980s prior it having an official NASDAQ listing.  It was delisted on 27 Jan 2006.  Its final traded price was $2.94.  It was taken over at a price of $2.90 per share by SL Industries. Source: Symbol AULT-200601 within Premium Data US delisted stocks historical price data set available from http://www.premiumdata.net/products/premiumdata/ushistorical.php Disclosure: I am a co-owner of Norgate / Premium Data. www.earnings.com is helpful thinkorswim's thinkDesktop platform has a lot of earnings information tied with flags on their charts they are free. I'm not sure of another other forums, maybe WSO? For subreddits, perhaps r/Economics can at least guide you better.  Thanks for sharing the papers! I wish I had some I could share with you but I don't know any. Maybe you can ask your profs, or even profs at other institutions? I'm sure they will appreciate the initiative and help you out.  I really don't know much about any of that yet unfortunately. Wish I could be of more help! I am mostly interested in day to day records, and would like the data to contain information such as dividend payouts, and other parameters commonly available, such as on : http://finviz.com/screener.ashx ... but the kind of queries you can do is limited. For instance you can only go back two years. most def.  When I have an algorithmic trading strategy I want to spitball, or some question about how to exploit netback pricing inefficiency between West Texas Intermediate and Brent prices based on some sort of shipping rate change, I'd like to post here.  When I want a new job, I'll go to r/financialcareers.