Gold-The Canary in the Coal Mine

From the article: The price of gold is a referendum on the quantity and quality of paper money and, like the canary in the coal mine, it is signaling a warning: there's trouble with the dollar reserve standard. Around the world the alert are looking for ways to abandon it.

As we continue to print and monetize our own debt, we have essentially said to the world we no longer have the ability to pull ourselves out of this spending death spiral.