All should be moved by this dramatic picture. This is an actual photo of currency traders in Sao Paulo, Brazil in early 1999.

Economic and monetary crisis overwhelmed Brazil - as it did a few years later to Argentina... and is a 'preview' of what the US may see during 2006.

The chart shows how the Brazilian currency (called the "real") price of gold soared nearly 80% in a two-week period in January 1999. I believe the US dollar price rise of gold will be equally dramatic, violent and without notice sometime next year.

Forgive the Chinese cliché, "a picture is worth..."

http://www.gold-eagle.com/brazilgold.html 

This Brazilian picture will likely be replayed in a theater near you…in the not too distant future. ....around the globe in all countries.

Consequently, one is either on-board...or left at the station with a bag full of fiat paper, wringing his hands and screaming his lungs out:

"I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT GOLD!”

...will a similar scenario play out in the remaining 7 months of this year?

Unfortunately, by yearend many hapless investors will be crying in their beer, mumbling, "I cudda, I wudda, I shudda...