[rplnt]

> if nobody understands the brilliance of your argument

What they didn't understand (what I said they didn't understand) was that I tried to determine value of the USD, not compare price of the gold to price to the shares.

Almost everyone pulled out some stupid comparison, trying to be funny. The Ron Paul, Apple and Juice comments looked like they came here from reddit. Only few comments were actually valuable and tried to correct me in a non-condescending way.

Anyway, after some more reading around I came to conclusion that valuing USD by gold is indeed not the right idea. I was somehow convinced that gold is something stable. From what I found, the difference between 2004 and 2012 dollars is inly something above 25%.

[jbooth]

Upvoted for admitting you were wrong about the gold comparison, it's hard to do that on the internet and we could all do it more often.