Regarding Obamacare, there's too much emphasis on insurance and not enough on health care IMO. All he had to do was extend Medicare to everyone, and then they could control costs. Obamacare is better than nothing, but it is a complex monstrocity, methinks.

The gold bugs have their story and no amount of contrary evidence will shake their faith. The only statistic that really matters when considering debt is the debt to GDP ratio. A trillion dollars in 2014 does not mean the same as it did in 1980. The debt to GDP ratio is currently going down at a very fast rate, so in the real world, debt actually easing.

I just try to trade the intermediate term trends and the long term will take care of itself. Regarding the PMs & juniors, my fingers are crossed, but one of them is on the sell button, lol.