Today we are seeing something that rarely happens: USD, bond and stock all doing down and only gold up.  What that tells is people are more likely to move money into hard assets (not real estate) but commodities.  Beside the safe heaven role of commodities, when the hyper-inflation comes there will be another boost to this asset class.  People were criticizing me not to treat bond as a safe heaven, yes it was but in the past, the new winner will be commodities especially in a currency crisis era.  Paper supply is unlimited where gold is limited.  Just my 2 cents.