re: "Get ready for that day. When it happens, there will be no time to make preparations."
I will say this. When everyone else was lining up outside gas stations this weekend, or worrying about how they were going to get to work with their nearly empty cars, it was nice having two nearly full vehicles at home, and fifteen cans of gas sitting in the garage. (Ten cans, plus a full van at the trip's start, will get my family to New Hampshire. Hopefully, I'll never have to make such a hurried trip. And I do wish it wasn't so far - about 550 miles. There's nothing I can do about that... except to retire and move. It'll probably be a few more years.)

Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months