know what will bring it back other than a standoff between the USA vs. China and The latin world and the arab world that is industrializing itself slowly and India. All your jobs have gone there for silly call center customer service jobs. One saving grace of the USA is Nevada. Apparently has more gold than Canada, Russia, China and Ghana combined. Could be. If so, that State will not care about the landscape. Dig, baby, dig. Re: gold rising to $56,000 an ounce for the USA to balance its books. Book as the USA dumps the gold on the market, the price will fall. Plus, how many buyers do you expect to buy gold at $56,000 an ounce?? Can't see how this will end well for the West. Things are going to get ugly and mean. Don't paint us all with the same brush. I maintain that we are still a country of mostly good people. There are some real wingnuts out there and they are definitely not just the conspiratorial crowd as you call them. I get pretty concerned oftentimes when I travel, but then I have experiences like I had in New York on a subway to a Yankee Game back in May. I have never seen a more polite and friendly group of people. And no, they were not drinking Bud! Bobby, that is a real can of worms trying to decide what comes when the US dollar fails,if there are any currency experts out there