If there is no QE3 markets will melt as it was the Fed who supported the market rebound.
Yup. The markets are manipulated.
Also, since the Fed was supporting the treasuries and with QE2 ending the markets are moving lower as the bankers pull their profits and move into the treasuries and cash which both support the dollar temporarily.
I suspect the Fed will be doing a back door QE3 soon by putting a cap on Treasury yields in the short end of the curve. It won't be called QE3, it will be an "Operation Twist" redux.
http://twitter.com/#!/PIMCO/status/80276536510521344
First wave was the masses lost their assets in housing, the next will be those saving dollars in the banks. Once debt bubble bursts I can see hyperinflation and a possible civil war but that's still years away IMO.
Hard to predict. Things can move faster than we think, or this thing could still have enough life support to run for a while...and don't discount black swan events like what happened in Japan.
One more thing, while I like silver bullion too, silver can get hit hard at first since it is semi-precious and it's not on the same level as gold.
Silver took a dump at the end of April when they, ahem, raised margin requirements. More manipulation. It's rigged. However, the Gold/Silver ratio is way below its historic levels. If a reversion to the historic ratio happens, silver would go up to $90 at the current price of gold.