I hear some say gold will double by the end of the year. I think a lot more bad news would have to roil through the economy for that prediction to come true, and none of that bad news is anything I would expect any nation, even this one, to survive intact! But I still see the same trend line Charles, and it has been an increadibly steady rise since April/May '09. There was run up preceding that, but when I look at actual price levels and moving averages, from the April/May '09 period it has been quite astonishing how perfectly predictable it has been. Running off that same trend, I can see gold hitting 1800 by year end, easily, possibly even 1900. And silver could be easily at 50 well before year end.