Although reflective and hypothetical, it is occasionally useful to look back by several years to see how equal investments in different areas might have fared differently. For some, this is a more concrete way of seeing how different assets, currencies, and bonds might have performed as compared with one another than a comparison of growth figures. And so, if you were to have invested $10,000 in gold, the S&P 500 generally, or Bitcoin back in July of 2010, how would your money be doing in the middle of 2017? Gold If you invested in gold in July of 2010, your investment would have essentially stayed the same at this ... (full story)