I believe we should see this pickup in the news again
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-seeks-1-2-trillion-debt-limit-rise-021000271.html
If it plays out like last august we could be in for a interesting february. 2000 gold in feburary could be very plausible if both Eurozone and U.S grab financial headlines.
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