re: ###energy crisis/gold boom gold boom###
The gold impact is irrelvant unless gold can be used as a new energy source lol - that said if prices rise high enough (oil and gas not gold) then innovation and capital expenditure will be sped up from everywhere from computing to automobile manufacturing to corparate processors etc. The more profits to be made the more technology investment gets thrown at it - look at the recent technology in resource exploration - which wasnt there until the recent rally.
