solving a debt problem is solved by more debt and leveraging, which is what's being discussed in Europe today. But either way, as I said before, I don't think the impetus will be for precious metal prices to rise, if I had to predict, I certainly would believe that silver would be above $50 next year and that gold certainly would be above $2000 and it could be substantially higher than that. It's a question of how irresponsible governments are and maybe we will find out there is a Eurpoean plan, and then 3 or 4 months later, there is an American plan where we get QE3. It's hard to know where it's going to go because we don't know how irresponsible the governments are going to be, but they are tending to be irresponsible, therefore you would think there would be lots of impetus for higher prices. P: Eric, I would like to thank you once again for taking this time to spend with us and answer some of these questions for our audience. Thank you so very much. E: Patrick, My pleasure. This article was sent to people who get email alerts on . Get email alerts on  This article was sent to 162,610 people who get the Macro View newsletter. Get the Macro View newsletter