http://www.zerohedge.com/article/gold-rise-143-trillion-us-debt-limit-increase-%E2%80%93-bloomberg-chart-day

..."An increase in the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling is inevitable and is a question of when rather than if.
The Bloomberg Chart of the Day (see above) shows how gold in dollars is correlated with increases in the U.S.’s debt limit, particularly in the last 10 years...."
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon