Well, I bought gold some time ago, that's all I know. The housing slump I think took everyone by surprise and the whole world has known about us running in the red for a long time but Iran has huge energy contracts with China. Israel is the wild card from China's point of view and with the falling DOW, they have to be extremely worried on both counts. The world's economy can tolerate an attack on Iran better than it can a nuclear armed Iran IMO. I think even Boscoe (FM) would agree with that.