on days like today it is important to remember the big picture.  here is an article by john lee, who believes that gold will do well in the years ahead, and silver will do even better.

then eric sprott of sprott asset managment on the developing banking crisis.  i thought his most salient point was that the banks' own models forecast that if one of them went bankrupt they would all go bankrupt.  so they changed the models.  imo, it is looking more and more like the rescue of bear stearns was actually a rescue of j p morgan.

 http://www.kitco.com/ind/Lee/mar282008.html

 http://www.sprott.com/pdf/marketsataglance/MAAG.pdf