Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open.

How do you measure the value of gold?
1) Get some gold. 2) Walk around, yelling, "Hey, I have some gold, who wants to buy it?" 3) Once you have enough interested parties, hold an auction and see who will give you the most dollars for it. 4) Trade the gold for that many dollars. 5) You have just measured the value of your gold.