Not 2000 year gold bubble, the Bretton Woods agreement in the mid-1940s that pegged the value of gold started the bubble and it went crazy after Nixon removed gold altogether before France took all our gold reserves. The comparative buying value of a dollar has declined considerably since then. If a total correction would occur, which I'd argue would mirror the buying power of 1913 before the modern Federal Reserve, a dollar today would be worth about 2 or 3 cents back then. I am not for that, to be clear, that is just an extreme example of how little our dollar is worth these days.