This chart shows gold vs. the stock market since Bernanke’s famous helicopter drop speech
“In short, market participants seem to agree with this thesis—in a world in which the government decides to keep the economy going via heavy fiscal spending, lower rates / other policy tools are helpful in terms of supporting that spending. As a result, the purchasing power of U.S. dollars has fallen much more than what conventional measures of inflation would suggest,” say strategists at Morgan Stanley led by Mike Wilson.