Gold can be pounded into a sheet so thin that light passes through it, yet the sheet doesn't crack.

Embossed on a sheet of gold from the newfound Greco-Roman tombs in Egypt, the four sons of horus-ancient Egypt's god of the sky-were believed to protect the intestines, lungs, stomach, and liver.

And you can see that as the fed's balance sheet has swelled, so too have stocks and gold surfed the wave of cash.