Gold rose above $1,000 again in February-March 2009, when it looked like most of the financial system in the United States and Europe might be near insolvency, and that many governments could not guarantee deposits and backstop the financial system, because banks that were too big to fail were also too big to be saved.
2009年2、3月，金价再次破千，这一次是因为，市场认为美国和欧洲的金融体系大都处于近乎资不抵债的状态，许多国家的政府无力再为存款或金融体系进行担保——那些“大到不能倒”的银行，同时也是“大到救不了”。