tyb
>They'll tax you on the sale, and call it a profit, so you'll lose the inflation anyway unless you're keeping it for 40 years +.
gold is up ~80% over 5 years
still less than 40 years either way you cherry-pick it
>So ultimately you lose the taxes, which is what like 25%
only if you choose assume anyone with gold must've bought it X amount of years ago to avoid looking at the 80% price increase