Recently our good friends at Casey research published the following chart comparing the inflation adjusted Gold returns to stocks and bonds for the period 1971 through the present.  From this chart we can see that as bonds fell during the late 1970's gold rose equivalently and stocks were basically flat. During the 1980's bonds rose and gold fell while while stocks rose slightly. During the 1990's stocks rose sharply gold fell and Bonds were volatile but basically flat to slightly up. During the 2000's gold was up sharply, stocks were volatile and bonds were pretty flat. … [Read more...]