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0 pointspuranjay8y ago0 comments

Maybe it's a cultural thing, but I've always been told that gold is a great investment.

The "digital gold" argument doesn't make sense to me at all. Human beings aren't rational spenders. Gold, if nothing else, looks good. I can buy a $10,000 bar of gold and even if its value crashes by 20% tomorrow, I at least have an aesthetic metal that feels nice to touch.

BTC doesn't even give me that satisfaction

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MarkMc8y ago

Check out the ratio of gold price to Dow Jones index for last 100 years:

http://www.macrotrends.net/1378/dow-to-gold-ratio-100-year-h...

In 1917 it was about 5, now it's about 15. So threefold increase in a century.

Plus the Dow pays around 2% dividend per year which is 7-fold increase in a century.

So US stocks outperformed gold by 21 times between 1917 and 2017.

Looking at the chart, there are very few long-term periods when gold has outperformed US stocks.

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