I still don't get how buying up gold is such a great investment. People are dumping their stocks, draining their savings, even borrowing money, to purchase gold. The price is at the highest it's ever been right now, so it can only lose value.
The people selling gold right now are just raking in the cash, and probably buying up all those stocks, the gold buyers are dumping, which raises the stocks value through demand.
The government(s) really need to let this financial geniuses take their loses, and work to break up some of these larger businesses, instead of rewarding them. They really have too much power and control over the economy. Sure, things would be tough for a while, but we would be much better off in the long run. We survived the depression of the '30s, and controls were set in place to prevent such suffering in the future. It won't be so bad as the fat cats would have us believe. They want us to freeze in fear, so they can continue to rob us blind.