I post charts and returns from the past 3 years showing Gold has outperformed the S&P 500 with dividends re-invested and you ignore it by referencing the peak gold price back in 1980? Cop out? Please, try acknowleding Gold has ouperformed the S&P 500 with dividends reinvested TOTAL return the past 3 years then we can talk. You are good at laughing and throwing insults around... I'll give you that much.
Gold is supposedly a storehouse of value, yet the only claim you can make to that effect is one specific, short period.
The fever pitch of goldbuggery was pretty high in 1980 too. What happened to the people who were goaded and suckered into buying then? Why are they so irrelevant to you? Why can't you admit that gold is only 55% of all-time high?
And since stocks are drifting around near their record highs, and gold is worth about half its record highs, how is it that gold barely outperforms stocks during your cherry-picked best-case scenario?
At least it's lustrous and shiny.