golden bug, It was not to long ago, igr was in the 10's and if you said it was would have been high 40's today someone would have said you would of been in la la land. Forget about wall street and the us gov, the price of gold is going up because of the us gov passion for the money print machine. Either trust the us $ or gold, You can't trust both and if you trust the $ don't buy gold shares, just put your money in the bank.