True. I had a very odd dream last night: My wife and I were browsing in a shop that had a bunch of oddities, and I found a bin of branches. I picked up a branch and heard a rattle. Breaking the branch, I found an old tin was inside. I showed the store owner, and he opened the tin. It was full of gold rivets. We Googled these rivets somehow, and found they were made in the late 1500's and were 40% gold. -Such a fucking bizarre dream. Anyway, my subconscious finds gold to be of value, even if its sense of history is fucked. :) I don't see everyone waking up an agreeing that gold is essentially useless. It's more than its rarity, too. It doesn't rust, and it can't be easily destroyed. Once you have it, you have it. All that said, I don't see an apocalyptic calamity on the way. Lot's of people are going to be out of work, and maybe some governments will get a new face, but we'll get through this. Land is good. As the saying goes: "They aren't making any more of it."