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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1280047, member: 3011&quot;]It is true that the stock market is not a good place to invest for people unwilling to think.&nbsp; And anybody who believes they should choose a stock today and let it ride for 50 years probably should stay away from stocks [and gold].&nbsp; Even the components of the major market averages are changed over time.&nbsp; In the past decade, gold has done very well and stocks are still where they were in the late 90s.&nbsp; But rather than proving that stocks are a bad investment, it offers the possibility that stocks are now cheap relative to gold.&nbsp; When gold was $250 and the DJIA was 12,000, gold turned out to be the better investment.&nbsp; But now with the DJIA at 11,000 and gold at $1600+, the situation is entirely different.&nbsp; Anybody who believes that gold requires no thought and will outperform stocks for the next 25 years will probably be greatly disappointed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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