It will not take long
Things are starting to happen fast. Just over five years ago, the price of gold finished a DROP from just over $1,900/ounce to $1,053/ounce. The day that the Federal Reserve hinted that the recovery had begun and hiked rates for the first time in years, gold bottomed.
The price has never been back to those levels since. In April 2019, the Bank of International Settlements, located in Basel, Switzerland, re-designated gold as a Tier 1 asset, as part of the Basel III Norms.
This was a major event, since it meant that central banks could now buy gold reserves and price them at 100% of value, not 50%, as it was before (when gold was Tier 3).
In point of fact, the highest echelon of central bankers determined that gold is worth DOUBLE what the markets were trading it for.
The day they issued this, its price was $1,291/ounce, so I do expect to see gold OUTPERFORMING stocks soon enough and to hit $1,291 * 2 = $2,582.
Think about the fact that the largest entity on the planet is offering you to lend it funds, which will NEVER beat long-term inflation rates. If you lend money to Washington until 2050, you will receive back a nominal principal, which will be worth about a sixth of the original, in terms of purchasing power.
In other words, if you lend Washington $100K today, with 2% rates, inflation will kill the yield and debasement will detonate your principal. You'll lose about 80% by 2050.
The only reason investors buy Treasury bonds is because they're looking for short-term solutions for liquidity.
The global economy is just TOO DEPENDENT on low rates for this environment to ever change, under our current structure.
The policy-makers understand it; therefore, they've been taking steps to ensure their own monetary reserves include GOLD.
That's not the only major announcement of 2018. CEOs of the world's largest miners, such as Barrick, Newmont and Goldcorp, have proclaimed PEAK GOLD is upon us. It's just nearly impossible to discover new deposits.