Gold has been an excellent investment the past year. Even with today's loss it is up 14% from a year ago. It has outperformed the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 by 8-12% from a year ago.
Talk show hosts don't read adds to buy Halliburton stock? I think it may be illegal for individual companies to tout their stocks with advertisements.
Yeah, but it was at $500 in 1988. It was $620 in Jan 1980. There has been lots of inflation since then.