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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 1986569, member: 20480&quot;]Interest rates will rise if investors lose confidence in the dollar, and want more return for the money for investing or reinvesting in our debt.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Our indebtedness is still extremely high at nearly $18 trillion, but the growth in our debt has slowed considerably from the rate at which we were borrowing 4 - 6&nbsp; years ago.&nbsp; At the same time, other nations are now more heavily leveraged than they were 5 years ago, making them higher perceived credit risks, thus making US debt more attractive (in relative terms only).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Therefore, investors are pulling their money from the safe havens (metals in particular) they parked it in several years back to invest it someplace where they get more than just peace of mind.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do not believe our representatives value doing right over being popular, and I expect some sort of government manipulation of our currency to head off a confidence crisis.&nbsp; Any such manipulation will almost certainly reduce the real value of circulating dollars to conpensate the investors for the risk they took, and to remain in good favor with them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For that reason, I&nbsp; personally continue buying into weakness in the gold market, but I diversify my risk by only buying gold which is not considered generic.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The investors likely will make a greater return than metalheads over the next few years but, if they are holding paper assets when the tide turns, and the turn will be very abrupt, their gains will all be lost, and we will be very comfortably protected in the metals they then will want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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