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Message:: [QUOTE="fatima, post: 1337682, member: 22143"]This is why I listed the S&P 500.  It's the index held by most people.  In comparison, the Dow is a arbitrary weighted index defined controlled by banksters who routinely change it to keep it looking good.   I can't say that I ever ran into anyone who used the Dow for fund buying until this topic. (and certainly I've known nobody who went out and bought the equivalent stock)   Sure that is an anecdotal observation, and I won't deny the Dow is a valid index, but it wasn't listed in this topic for that reason.   The return on the Dow in 2011 was 5.53% which, IMO, also isn't very good considering the risk vs the 3.06% return on the very safe I-bond with it's lack of state taxation.  In comparison Big Boss Gold, handily beat them all down.  There is room for this metal in everyone's investment strategy.   I continue to advocate for long positions with gold, hold the physical, and ignore the ones who tell you that it's in a bubble and going to fail.  As the 2011 results show, it's the results that matter, not the words and what grandpa did with his money in 1980 has no bearing.   This is yet another year in more than a decade of years where gold has done very very well.   Most working adults in the USA statistically invest for approximately 25 years of their lifetimes.  This rise in gold represents 40% of that period.[/QUOTE]