There are a lot of people who were right who are now broke or dead. We aer right in the middle of that lesson. We are RIGHT. The fiat banking system is a scam to facilite parasitic theft of wealth from the productive.
We know that gold is real value, is not someone's debt, and spans thousands of years of schemes to that aim to cheat people of their wealth. Yet today we are in a deep hole. Today we would have done better by holding cash (fiat).We know that the day of reconning is comming and holding precious metals and hopefully shares of pm miners will pay off.
Gold and silver are in short supply. Mine output is in a steady decrease. Off again in 08 by 3% and predicted to fall by 5% in 09. Demand is increasing every day. The price in fiat WILL rise! Demand for oil is increasing despite the media reports to the contrary. Oil production is shrinking if the face of increasing global demand. The price of food is increasing much greater than reported. The $ is being printted in Weimar style. (Remember the 1 Trillion Mark note?
All of what is going on right now is putting pressure under the price of gold and of silver. Someday it will explode beyond common held belief.
The question is can you hold on till then.