🥇 PRICE ILLUSION VS REAL VALUE — IS GOLD REALLY “EXPENSIVE”?
Everyone’s staring at the $5,000/oz headline and calling it “price madness.”
But that reaction only makes sense if you look at gold in nominal dollars.
Zoom out — and the story flips.
📊 What this chart actually shows
Gold isn’t being measured against a weakening currency.
It’s being measured against financial assets — stocks and bonds.
And by that metric?
👉 Gold is still historically cheap.
🕰️ A reality check
• In 1980, gold massively outperformed stocks and bonds
• Today, gold is still near the bottom of that long-term ratio
• Equities (S&P 500) and government debt have absorbed enormous inflation
• Gold hasn’t yet caught up
This isn’t expensive gold.
This is a delayed repricing.
⚠️ The illusion
Nominal prices rise, so people assume value has peaked.
But what’s really happened is:
• Stocks inflated
• Bonds inflated
• Debt exploded
• Currencies diluted
Gold is simply beginning to close the gap.
🧠 Why this matters now
The classic 50/50 portfolio no longer offers true protection in a world of:
• High debt
• Financial repression
• Policy-driven markets
Smart money is starting to understand this isn’t a gold bubble — it’s the early phase of a structural reset between paper assets and hard value.
📌 Bottom line
We’re not buying gold because it went up.
We’re buying it because everything else is priced for perfection.
The real question isn’t whether gold is expensive —
It’s whether your portfolio is ready for what comes next.
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