| As the media would have you believe it, gold is on an unstoppable downward spiral and no one is ever going to buy gold again. That's utter nonsense. Gold has been one of the best-performing assets over the last year. In fact it's been one of the top-performers in the last five years.
Let's just use the popular ETF Gold Trust (GLD) as a benchmark. As of 09/24/2011 it's up 28.31% versus the S&P 500's rise of 0.96%. Over the last five years, GLD is up 174% while the S&P 500 is down -13.57%..............................................Full Article: Source
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