Dow To Fall 97% Against Gold?

In the last 48 years, since 1969, an investor who put $1,000 into the Dow would today have $33,000. That is a gain of 3,200% or 7.6% annually. On the other hand, someone who put $1,000 into gold in 1969 would today have $37,000 or 7.8% annual return. But if you add dividends to the Dow, the return is far superior at 10.7% with the dividends reinvested.

1969 seems like an arbitrary start year but it happens to be the year that I started my first job. No one could of course have predicted any o...