Something had to give somewhere ($US and US markets) so maybe today is the day the Ferris wheel stops.
True Trump did not exactly help things yesterday.
The sad part (for me speaking strictly as a greedy capitalist) is that the rise in gold price is only in adjustment to the declining $US...its like an engine that won't catch :)

PS
I think urbanization was largely due to mechanization,and loss of rural employment.
Reminded of this by some (bad) Richard Gere movie last nite (set in 1910)
Took like  ? 100 people to stook and thresh a large farm of grain.
Horse drawn equipment,steam threshers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXcmd6hzUbs

Most small towns that thrived  in 1915 and even in the 1930-40's in Manitoba are completely gone...
quite sad really.