I believe we have little to fear of a general stock market crash this time around,

That would depend on your propencity to worry and stress. The "GURUS" that I follow are fairly evenly split between a market crash that will take down everything with a relatively quick rebound of commodities and their related stocks and those that are calling for a correction of the markets that may see indicies rise, however investors will be losing equity because of devaluation of the currency. In the latter scenario gold and gold stocks should soar and although we may be winners with our gold, we may not like the look of the world after such an event. Of course the gold bashers have many other scenarios that I disagree with.

Wish I had that proverbial crystal ball.