Under its current QE programme (which may or may not get tapered according to the Fed’s current intentions), the Fed is printing $1 trillion a year................................... To put it another way, the Fed is printing roughly 100 years’ worth of money every 12 months. (Now that’s inflation.)...................................... Conjuring up a similar amount of gold from thin air is not so easy. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-06/why-faith-gold-one-simple-statistic