Odd isn't it?

With the world apparently losing its mind and money losing its worth it is odd that those "barbarous relics" are suddenly seen as valuable. The tin-pot dictators don't load their planes with cash before fleeing the country, they skip off with a ton or two of gold, how quaint their notions of money are.

This seems to be an idea that gains popularity inversely to the gravity of the news. It seems to have cut short gold and silvers recent correction in mid-stride, as seen below;

I think it is kind of neat that the charts look almost identical.

In times of trouble people turn to what they know is true.