This chart goes back to the 1950s. Last few years it was a 23 to 1 or so ratio. Today it is 110,000 to one. This is not the day to sell your gold and buy Tesla Motor stock. Never a day to do that.
With oil at about zero, comparing it to anything would look the same.
Log scale. Cool, apparently corrected for inflation.
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