JBO, You are right! This must happen. We are not talking about speculation, but economic laws not unlike gravity that hold the physical universe together. Gold and silver must go up, just as the tides must come in. The tides might not come in ever again, but that would signal a fundamental change in the nature of existence. No such change is occurring in the existence of man. We are at no turning point in our evolution, simply another change in the financial tides, old and predictable for those who open their eyes and look. Bull