Time to hide your gold under your mattress

I used to think of gold bugs kind of like conspiracy theorists. Gold is the only real money blah blah blah. but looking at basically a 10 year time span it's amazing how Gold and silver have outperformed the S and P500, and a few of the dividend stocks, We aren't even going to look at bonds. Much better to buy gold than to loan money to the government who is just going to create more money with it. Anyway there are other out performers if you can do your research, but I'm a little shocked, gold only gets the headlines occasionally, Silver barely does.