[BfloGuy]

I suppose that if gold were not so high, the author would have replaced "ounces of gold" with "barrels of oil", or some such thing.

It's a perfectly valid comparison.

Gold is often used as a benchmark and is much, much more accurate than the jury-rigged government inflation statistics. Oil wouldn't make a good comparison as its price is so affected by supply -- as we're seeing now.

[Leaning Right]

Gold is often used as a benchmark and is much, much more accurate than the jury-rigged government inflation statistics.

True that. But I wonder why there was no comparison to, say, silver or a bushel of corn. And I wonder just how meaningful a gold-Dow comparison really is.