Why Gold Is at Its Highest Price Ever Right Now | WSJ

• Price of gold - - Closing above $4,000 - - Reaching heights it has never seen. - The price of gold hit $4,000 a troy ounce for the first time, the most ever. And this rally has been unusual compared to anything else we've seen at least since 1979.- When the going gets rough, people turn to gold. - Here are three charts to help explain what's happening. The first chart is the price of gold futures.Futures prices have risen some 50% this year, which has outpaced many of the biggest crises in American histor ...