The chart above clearly underscores the way gold prices follow in tow to the rising level of public debt in the U.S. Be forewarned.

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Keepman, 51, her husband and grown daughter were making their way home to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, with two new family additions in tow -- a boy and girl they'd just adopted from Ethiopia.

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