Many people just like investing in short-term CDs. Let’s take a look at CD’s during the same period of time when gold has rose over 200% from the years 2000-2009. Investing in 6-month CD’s would have returned an average rate of 4.367%. If you opted for 1-year CD’s then the average rate would have been 4.769%. From 2001 to 2005 rates were below average. You would have fared better if you invested with a longer-term perspective. Historical CD rates for 3-year have been 5.071%, a 4-year CD’s have been 5.170%, and 5-year CD’s have been 5.383%

So let’s use 5% being the CD rate for our comparison between Gold and CD’s. If you would invested $10,000 in a CD in 2000 today that would be worth $14,422.50.

Using the same time frame and dollar amount in Gold that would be worth today $29,694.