I guess with dividends reinvested, stocks look even better.
Or how about Altria (Phillip Morris) vs gold since 1980?
Smoke 'em if you got 'em!!!
Oh PLEASE, using an extreme top is the only way to make a point?? Must be a losing point then.
Why not plot Gold against the NASDAQ *since 2001* the the stock market hit an extreme top? Care to take that argument?
The only way to plot Gold is to do it after the gold window was closed by Nixon. Before then, it was the same as CASH.
Let's have some intellectual honesty here.