and i say good riddance well remember as greece and portugal and spain. were being downgraded similarly by s. and p. and fitch and moody's and it was the credit default swap the c.d.'s that was that the indicator to the global markets that the debt of these countries was being attacked well zero hedge tweeted something very interesting about the gold price soaring gold is the new us c.d.'s it has been for ten years and gold started to make its move in two thousand when the internet bubble burst and the fed came in with lower interest rates to see the housing bubble this is when the gold and silver vigilantes understood that ben bernanke and greenspan were not operating in the interest of the greater economic good but only in the very narrow interest of the top one tenth of one percent in the united states who by the way they just got another huge tax cut they just got another huge wealth increase and the divide between the top one tenth of one percent in the bottom ninety nine percent...