Inflation is the residual theft that occurs due to the money printer not being satisfied after it has already stolen the gains from natural technological deflation.

Gold turned out to be harder to do because it's market-priced. Depending on the price, you're either doing better or worse in terms of your percent of the market cap. The break-point came out to around $3700, where if the price is less, you earn a higher share of the gold market cap and vice versa against M2 money supply. Getting the price of gold above that threshold in the past few years I think is significant, but I can't say why.