Up here in Australian where I spend my money the $US Gold price is irrelevant, even though the two move in lockstep typically. It's embarrassing, but we just blew through $5500, well over 100% more than I paid for my last big Gold purchase only one and a half years ago. The last big silver acquisition was further back, two and a half odd years and it's well over 100% up now too. I don't keep detailed records of when and how much, that's a fools game, the game paper investors have to play. They are always balancing costs and returns, and when their paper markets collapse, they run for the spread sheets. It's a sad way to live your life, a very stressful way, but that's how the 99% have done it ever since time dot.
Freedom! Many talk about it but so few actually find it. When you're obsessed with political parties, you're not free. When your future depends on billionaires and their bubbles, you're not free. Nor are you free when you have personal debt. Be it a house, a car, or simply a credit card balance you can't clear each month. The "System", promoted by the likes of Alan Greenspan, has convinced most people that personal debt is the smart way to go. It's smart they say, buy now and a cheaper price and pay back your low interest loans over time and you'll be ahead! All this really does is encourage people to buy stuff they can't afford and put a millstone around their necks.
That's half the trouble in the advanced economies today, these silly fools never counted on interest rates rising. And so what if they locked in a cheap rate, if other things like utilities and taxes and the base cost of everything else is going up it skews that equation they made a couple of years back when they calculated how much of a monthly payment they could comfortably afford. And it's only going to get worse.
Like I said, it's a little embarrassing, I have never wanted Gold to go up at such rates, we Goldbugs prefer a more steady climb because we know that means the economy, while getting incrementally worse year by year, is still going to hold together. We like stability, but we buy Gold because when things go tits up we are covered. I doubt many serious buyers do it for a windfall. Well now we're looking at a windfall, and that begs the question, do we start to sell out at a certain point and upgrade to better homes, luxury cars? that's not in our mindset, we are conservative with money. But it will get to a certain level where it's obviously going to correct and no one wants to throw away real money when it's there for the taking.
These in a V8 pack aren't as expensive as many would think. Certainly puts any EV to shame.

We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.