It’s obvious to see why investors world wide are dramatically increasing their precious metals holdings:

+	Precious metals has always been a store of value or thought to be insurance on your wealth.
+	The US dollar has become a liability no longer an asset to many key countries. Because of that, the US dollar has lost nearly 40% of its value relative to the other major currencies.
+	The turmoil in the municipal bond market has caused municipal money market funds to buy taxable securities , resulting in big tax bills for investors.
+	Billions of dollars of securities were rolled over into auctions by big wall street firms like Goldman Sach's, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.
+	A combination of looming recession and persistent inflation is reviving the scare of stagflation.
+	We have corner stone U.S. companies like GM reporting record losses, GM's ended 2007 $38 billion in the red. Which is the largest annual loss ever by an automaker.
+	The credit markets pain has has been getting worse, Market's CDX investment-grade index which tracks the cost of insurance against investment-grade corporate defaults has swollen an amazing 330% since June.
+	Hospitals, schools, public utilities and other institutions that have issued auction-rate securities are scrambling to avoid paying higher interest rates in this newly troubled corner.
+	Surging commodity prices and a sluggish economy were poison for corporate earnings. Investors scale what there willing to pay for future earnings, driving price-to-earnings multiples lower.
+	The dollar has hit all time lows against the Euro @ 72.98
+	Oil has hit $130 per barrel and projected to go higher.
+	Data from the U.S. Treasury has shown an outflow of $163 Billion from all forms of U.S. investments!!
+	The greenback has already fallen below the Canadian Loonie for the first time since 1976 & has closed at $2.032 against the British Pound, another record low for the dollar.
+	80% of mutual funds under perform the market every year.