Cash and gold - 1 year returns

Below stolen from the Wall Street journal, via The Big Picture blog.Gold has outperformed cash over the past year and both have trounced stocks and real estate. This trend will be intact next year as well, but I suspect gold will pull even further ahead of cash. Gold cannot go bankrupt and has been real money for 5000 years, while hundreds of man-made currencies have come and gone. The U.S.