what they are doing is taking varience. taking the fat tails away. taking the upside of the economy away and taking what they perceive to be the big down side of the economy away. in a setting there's no room for dooms day gold trade. that's my opinion. >> scott graham, do you agree with that? is that message from the bond market as well? the fear coming out of here. >> economy is showing signs of real resilience in light of the sequester and tax increase. there is a huge difference between tapering and quantitative easing and i think bernanke is trying to get the messaging. markets are coming through the economic crisis that juncture very well. there is a fear factor alleviated from the marketplace. >> let me ask you, scott, while you're here, do you think some of the investors that are selling gold today are in fact putting money into stocks? is that a little bit of a rotation we are seeing today? >> well there is a global retags into the equity market. i'm not a gold expert. but i would have to think that gold has had such a good run, a fear trade