And I want you in before the spot price breaks $1,000. 

Whenever you purchase physical metal, you have to pay a premium over spot. So in actuality you will undoubtably pay over $1,000. I don't care. The $1,000 spot price is a significant psychological ceiling. Human beings are naturally prone to pay attention when 3 figures turns into 4 figures. We're stupid like that. In addition, the $1,000 level represents the all-time high, the top level of resistance. If you're a stock chart guy like I used to be, you know that busting it is what technical analysts refer to as "blowing the friggin' roof off." When it goes, I don't think it's coming back. 

It's easy to understand how elder generations who remember the good old days when gold was "fixed" at $35/oz  could never imagine shelling over $1,000+ for a tiny ounce of the silly yellow stuff. "Gold is just so expensive," my mother exclaimed the other day. 

I also heard an older fella reminiscing about how back in the day, you could get two cupcakes for a nickel. 

While some baby boomers may have difficulty wrapping their mind around the incessant, permanent, never-ending price inflation caused by fractional-reserve banking+central banking+fiat currency...the rest of us have to face reality.  

So don't listen to the schlubs. 

Schlub #1: "I feel like being long gold these days is like being short America..."

Schlub #2: "Absolutely." 

What is truly un-American is sitting idly by while yourself, your family, and your country are destroyed by paper. America is not the dollar.  So don't get too attached. 

p.s. Gold isn't that special. Silver, platinum, and palladium will all perform much the same.  

p.p.s. I wanted to add this chart. I think economists refer to it as "the huge friggin' tsunami."