It's hard to see (under current circumstances) the alternative to gold as the global repository of value considering the tons of panic-printed paper that is funding deficit spending across the planet.
And regarding deficit spending, the US Fed Govt, in the next decade, is on target to a whopping $9 trillion deficit.
The US is heading slowly but surely towards the raising of taxes - a VAT / GST?
In relation to Greece, the mother of democracy, the foundation of European culture, science, art, philosophy and just about everything that makes life worth living, the Oracle at Delphi had the answer thousands of years ago: