Gold is linked to inflation. Chris Johnston has done research on this, and it was in one of his newsletters (subscription only). I believe we will see very high inflation. Eric Jantzen, venture capitalist and dot com millionaire founded the itulip.com site in 1999 to warn people of the internet bubble. Read his KaPoom Theory, about inflation and deflation. He was one of the authors of the just -released Wiley book The Bubble Economy, which was just released and shipped to me yesterday. His charts is from the disinflation and deflation leading to the Great Depression, and he believes that gold will be the only store of value when Poom hits.