Originally Posted by Stanexpat

Take a look at the chart in the link below. Back in the late 70's you could buy gold at $750 an ounce and today it about $850. If you bought back then you would have made almost no money, in fact in inflation adjusted dollars you would have lost big time, not exactly a great investment.

http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_ch...rly_graphs.plx