Silver broke up through $19 today. This is beginning to look like the 1970's! Newspaper articles today point out that inflation has really been running above 4%. If we had not had cheap imported goods from the far-east, our price inflation would be much higher. Dollar hit new low against the Euro, so it's obvious that our currency is not the place to put your savings.
If you don't have pricious metals investments, you should consider it.