Every thing in my life time has gone through a cycle as does life. I do not believe I have ever seen such a defined group of items go up for such a long time. Being wrong is part of being right more often. With debt , unemployment ,and other items making it more than a challenge to reverse, silver ,gold , copper etc could be in a longer run then we could expect. That only indicates that food of all types will be in short supply and expensive. With maybe 2-5% having had foresight to buy PMs , there are going to be difficulties ,in where the fiat currencies fit in the equation . Pep