mmayr, $GOLD is real money, $GOLD is hard assets, theoretically to make it short, the same components that are driving the price of oil to record highs should already be doing the same to $GOLD, however it's still over $235 away from its' record highs... even though it's up $15.10 today to $649.00, I think the record high is somewhere around $887?... it's got a long ways to go, and you're beginning to see that $GOLD to oil ratio breakout here again today...