I love gold, but i don't know about all of what you said.

I guess I do not believe the conspiracy / cartel stories.

And I really do not believe that Joe Public ties the price of gold all that closely to inflation (any more than they did to oil, when that commodity went parabolic back circa 2008).

Saying as you did that all the USD assets have been devalued by over 80% compared to gold ... that isn't entirely true, or at least it is misleading, if the USD assets have been growing at the same time. It's only true if the price of the USD asset is unchanged since 2001.

I know one gold bull who was saying to sell AMZN ever since it was $8 in 2001. Today it is $160. So, let's see, according to that measure gold has lagged AMZN by a factor of 16 since 2001. Lots of blue chip stocks have outperformed gold by large margins since 2001 (e.g., POT, AGU, AAPL).