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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 687254, member: 3011&quot;]Really?&nbsp; Since 2001, gold has moved up from below $300 to $1000, far outpacing stocks.&nbsp; Want a longer time period?&nbsp; In 1965, the Dow was 1,000 and is now about 9,600 -- a respectible 9.6X gain.&nbsp; In 1965, gold was $35 and is now $1,000 -- a more than respectible 28X gain.&nbsp; To anticipate your responses, I know this excludes dividends, but it also excludes the income a gold investor can make from basis trading, which at times has been as high as 20% per year.&nbsp; And I know you can choose a time period to demonstrate the superiority of stocks over gold.&nbsp; My point is only to show that the comparison is not a clear-cut as you make it out to be.&nbsp; No investment is intrinsically good or bad.&nbsp; There is a time and place to own and not own everything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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