No amount of 'crying ladies' paraded as intentional misinformation can either. With their lack of understanding that their 'losses' are unrealized, and often accompanied by a confusion about why the investment was undertaken in the first place if it was even entered for the right reasons, people sadly succumb to their own ignorance of the financial system.

Gold mining stocks break out relative to S&P. Unbelievable strength in the face of unprecedented deflation: not something to stand against.