RE: gold the illusionYou might want to review you history of gold and deflation or was the 1929 depression inflationary .
https://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_08/taylor102508.html
at its peak in 1938, a $1,000 investment in Homestake grew to $6,760! Not only did it grow in nominal terms, but it was also even more impressive than it appeared, because with deflation, those $6,760 bought more in 1938 than they did in 1929!