Strong Economy, Lol, over 46 million people on food stamps and that's being conservative per their numbers because like the famous saying goes "Figures don't Lie, but Liars do Figures" Think about that statement or this one by John Adams - "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation One is by the sword. The other is by debt." which do you think we are. Or how about this one - "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild. Simply put we are Trillions and Trillions and Trillions in debt to where we can't cut off the printing machine and even pay the interest on the loans, we are having to borrow money just to pay the interest on the loans for the money we have already borrowed in the past- not to mention our debt is more than all of the other countries in the world combined in history - why do you think are government took over the "Banking" industry - try going to the Bank and getting a home loan with that kind of debt ratio - So we are the "POOREST NATION" on earth using statistics all the other nations use - China has bailed us out twice we can't even pay them back, that's why we are manipulating the prices for them now so they can accumulate and we continue to do them political favors because we owe them so many favors, the NAFTA and GAT treaty sent millions and millions of jobs overseas that are never coming back, just our student debt bubble alone 2.4 Trillion dollars is more than 98.3% of the other countries in the worlds debt. Let's say your house is financed through the bank if you can't make the payments and you owe more than what you can possibly make or pay back not only are you severely in debt, you are Bankrupt and they will come take it and foreclose on it, kinda what China is in the process of doing right now to us along with Russia 1 Major, Major key note many people are overlooking right now that we are now a ticking time bomb and within 12 months you probably will see - never in history have we lost the status of the "PETRODOLLAR" in which "EVERY" country in the world has to use the U.S. dollar, until Now, that's the major difference than last time that "NOBODY" talks about. Russia was one of the ones to start this and strangely within 24 hours we proposed economic sanctions and blamed it on the Ukraine issue. Before our new president Silver was $9 an ounce and I had a brick of it given to me by my grandfather, why because his opinion was like alot of economists today the government will try to spend their way out of it so when it started to rise he advised me to sell it at $31, I thought that was great but actually i sold way too early, I've been an investor for several years in the metals and it can go back to $10 and I still would have profited so technically investors that invested years ago are not down they are still up, it's just because the sentiment is bad but when she turns then everyone hops on the "Bandwagon." The only option our country can go is what they are "Currently" doing and that is "Deflation" and gold may go to $700 an ounce that's why I trade bullion and slowly accumulate and very sporadically ever buy. We are much more in debt than 2008 and have created yet another bubble, the student loan bubble just to name another one, so most economists will even say that gold will rise again just based on history and statistics alone, we would be well over $100 an ounce right now in silver if the government hadn't intervened but my payback to them is I love shorting the "Hell" out of certain stocks they talk up especially in earnings season, September, but my favorite is December - the Tax Sell-Off. Either way you look at gold and silver, if you want it to go up because you are an investor than the dollar goes down which means you better have a crapload of it because that means a more expensive cost of living no matter how you slice it - higher gas, power bill, water bill, groceries, etc..