Turn it around, the gold/dow ratio broke 10 last week, if you had told someone in 1999 that you could beat a dow buy and hold with gold by 400%, you would have been given a strange look, A longer term forecast I have is 5/1 within the next 2 years.

From a miners perspective what is happening is great, ask a Canadian mining company which is better, 1000$ gold 150$ oil and a strong Canadian dollar v $800 gold $80 oil and a weak Canadian dollar