Investments: Gold and Silver.

Gold prices could plunge should the European debt crisis intensify, such as messy Greek or Spanish default and withdrawal from the eurozone.
Such a scenario would send gold on fresh declines as investors run to the metal's traditional hedge, the U.S. dollar, but bargain hunters will snap the metal right back up....

1.  Gold and silver are the only markets driven by fear, and fear usually does not emanate from the metals, but from other areas. A lot of the other assets are driven by greed.
2.  Silver does display a high degree of volatility and I believe its fundamentals are far superior to those of gold due both to its industrial usage as well as price. Silver is far cheaper than gold and a lot of investment has been switching over...

Silver is at US$ 35.43 an ounce. Will it go higher?
The RSI has just tipped into overbought territory but this does not mean silver's price cannot go higher. It simply means that silver is beginning to be overbought. In very bullish conditions, silver could stay overbought....

Gold is essentially a very old form of money and like many people, I have always thought that having a consumption tax on investment grade gold is incorrect.
With the government exempting investment grade gold and other precious metals from GST come October 2012, buying physical gold as a hedge against systemic failure in the world of fiat currencies will become less burdensome....