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

MarkMc · on Dec 7, 2017

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

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.