Gold has had its ups and downs based on a number of economic factors. If you’ve ever wanted to ride a roller coaster based on its inflation adjusted price history here’s your chance.
We’re using data provided by the always interesting inflationdata.com. Here’s their chart of historical inflation adjusted gold prices. We basically smoothed this out a bit to make it work as a coaster, but all major peaks and valleys are included and rendered to scale:
Gold is a terrible investment. Unless you catch it at a low and get out at the right time you’re pretty much losing money if it’s sitting in yellow metal.