RE: ask yourself a question.. If typical economic cycles of the past applied, then yes, it would make sense to expect gold to pull back with a slowing economy, and gold may very well pullback temporarily due to selling pressure from the clueless herd. Perhaps they will but some Tbills at 1% or 2% interest? But typical business cycles don't apply. Much of the world's governments are running huge deficits going into a slowing economy while also dealing with high unemployment that will only get higher. These huge deficits are unsustainable especially with this huge debt bubble looming over everything. So either the world's debt bubble pops or governments and their central banks paper it over. Papering it over will probably add $50+ trillion to the money supply while they simultaneously add trillions more to finance massive deficits. Anybody who does not believe this will be in for a huge surprise. Perhaps, in the cold of the night when they are pondering how they got their new home under a bridge, they will come to the realization mainstream media, financial advisors and all the fools they listened to were all wrong.