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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 963572, member: 26302&quot;]Yes, but then you are picking and choosing dates that make your point, somewhat like the link did. Why did they choose 1928 and not an earlier date? Because an earlier date would have made the comparison less favorable to them. They chose a date just before a huge correction, minimizing stock returns by maximizing stock pricing at the beginning of their comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>How about I choose a starting date of 1979 or 1980? Then PM returns would be completely destroyed. That is the danger of picking an arbitrary time period instead of the whole data set. Any argument can be supported by arbitrarily choosing your data. We are talking right now after a major market correction. This is when all of the gold bulls come out of the woodwork and &quot;prove they were right. Then the market goes back up again, and they go back into the woodwork waiting until the next market correction where the numbers again look not so bad for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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