[expat_panama]

....it is the long haul that most gold/silver investors have been concentrating...

IOW, the past 200 years have been a blip heading for a correction.  /sarcasm

There are a lot of seemingly intelligent people who are crazy about homeopathic medicine too.  There's a 1999 Cornell study (covered in a NYT article) that looked into how incompetent people tend to ignore or distort feedback 

We see a lot of this looney economics on these threads.

[Strategerist]

IOW, the past 200 years have been a blip heading for a correction. /sarcasm

The last hope for the Gold Bugs is that the economy collapses so badly the government falls, we become a country of anarchic warlords, "fiat" money is worthless, and with the gold coins they have stuffed in their mattresses they're able to become a warlord themselves.

[headsonpikes]

We see a lot of this looney economics on these threads.

And your lunatic chart showing the stock market growing a thousand-fold over the last 70 years is yet one more example.

[hubbubhubbub]

Nice chart LOL. Notice that it's NOMINAL returns and not real (inflation adjusted) returns. Please rework for accruracy and resubmit.

[woofer]

Gee, Ex, I hope you don't think I was agreeing with the article.

BTW, cool graph. I knew I shoulda started investing in 1800 instead of waiting until 1973 when I was nineteen.