When(if?) the dollar turns around, gold and silver will dive.
Oh? How is it going to do that. With a quadrillion derivatives out there it means A) WW3 B) Abolish all debt & start over C) Continued downward spiral of the economy resulting in increasing cost of rare earth metals. It is currently in a fake bull market.
A standard observation shows most of the world markets rallying/continuing to grow at a modest pace. With the Europe debt situation, the US fiscal bullshit (more importantly the artificial quantitative easing the gov is supplying that's fucking the debt situation) China' increasing inflation rate and more or less un-reliable manufacturing numbers. Japan's slowing economy, and finally Britain's recession; it is very hard to think that there is any chance of the market doing anything but going down!
In saying that Markets are controlled by humans which and ultimately very predictable, this year the US will come up with some BS fiscal cliff plan the markets will rally. Everything will look great until May (that's when historically the markets rise till) Then the Europe thing will implode the markets will drop but who knows how low and for how long? It SHOULDN'T happen that way but if I was to bet on something that's what I think will happen
Rare earth metals may drop in the early future (probably not). But guess what, there is a reason why we are raping Africa for it right now, because it is becoming increasingly rare.
TD:DR
Markets will rise then drop in May (high probability). Rare earth metals will increase. Possibly WW3 after Syria falls and increasing pressure is put on Iran over State owned central bank (like Libya for instance although there was a few reasons more like trading Gold for oil) *EDIT*
It is going to get ALOT worse before it gets better