It's not just gold that we are recovering though. It's also platinum, palladium, silver, aluminum, copper, and maybe some other metals depending on what you're into.

Again ... just an opinion ... but i think that the real problem for many buyers & sellers is that the value (purchasing power) of the dollar has been trending downward for a long time now.

Just a hypothetical example: Let's say that in one year your profits go up by 10% but the purchasing power of your dollar declines by 20%

The net result is that you're making 10% less than what you did last year.



If you're running a business, and you find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place, there's always that temptation to shorten up either on your customers or your employees to make ends meet. It's not a sustainable practice because over the long run you'll lose both your customers and your best people that way.