Gold led the way higher as silver is still stuck around the 20 handle.
It had the feel of a 'flight to safety' as stocks took it on the chin, including the miners.
Let's see what happens.
"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel