The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. – Theodore Roosevelt
I will give one vote for copper also. Although we all agree on the problem with inflation the US debt and other such concerns the problem with gold that makes me nervous is the effect trading has on it's price. The price moves up and down more on perception than anything else because people hold gold, but don't use it. With copper although you can invest in a copper fund it's price is more based on usage. Of course this causes some problems of it's own as we've seen over the past 3 years. When the world economy is doing bad so to does copper. Still I think copper is a better way be move to safety away from the US dollar