yojimbo has a very good point. What has happened to this country! Our economy in the last 20 years has been fueled by in order, defense spending,dot-com’s with no business plan(stock market speculation),housing speculation. Now people are speculating about gold. What happened to coming up with good ideas, employing people you know and working hard to achieve success in America. We’ve been sold out by our greedy corporations that exported jobs to drive up their stock prices-this has been coming for a long time and that is why it may end badly for us working class people. I wish I could be more optimistic!