With the US dollar is at its lowest value in 10 years, predictions of a catastrophic stock market crash and currency collapse are blooming relentlessly. Market trends occur in patterns and cycles. You can trace back to the beginning of record keeping and see the same patterns repeating over and over again. Because… what goes up, MUST come down! This is a great post. We need more awareness around the failing dollar and it's relationship to gold and precious metals. Because of the mirrored relationship between the price of gold and US dollar decline, we'll likely see a significant increase in the price of gold in 2018.