Good article on "Cognitive Dissonance" at Zero Hedge ...which seems appropropriate to our collective dilemmas. http://www.zerohedge.com/

"Dear Investors: We continue to be very concerned about systemic risk in the global economy. Thus far, the systemic risk that was prevalent in the global credit markets in 2007 and 2008 has not subsided; rather, it has simply been transferred from the private sector to the public sector. We are currently in the midst of a cyclical upswing driven by the most aggressively pro?cyclical fiscal and monetary policies the world has ever seen. Investors around the world are engaging in an acute and severe cognitive dissonance..."

Seems we will have to continue to wait for the "cognitve assonance" of like minded gold bugs to assert itself over all the noise.