tm, i've seen a number of these types of articles and all i can say is:

since the US holds BY FAR the largest reserves of gold, does'nt $5000 oz gold actually help strengthen the dollar?

the rest of the world would hate us (as if they dont already) but i'd like to see the US come out and say "we're going back on the gold standard!"....imo, gold would go much higher than $5000 and most countries (including china) would find thier own currencies virtually worthless overnight..

on CNBC yesterday thier was interesting statistic that really suprised me: there's only about $820bil of US currency (actual paper cash) in existence (most of it is overseas).. i guess the rest is all the real "fiat currency" that only exists in cyberspace.... C'MON SOLAR FLARE!!!