Somebody will be making tons of money here

Debt Deadlock: Stocks Drop, Gold Rises to Record - Business - The Atlantic Wire

The markets did pretty much as analysts expected as the debt ceiling debate still grinds away in Washington, D.C.: stock markets fell and gold hit a record high this morning. From The Wall Street Journal: "The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 72 points in recent action, or 0.6%, to 12609, though the measure was off the lows it hit in volatile early trading that sent the blue-chip index down by as much as 145 points."

Of course I would never imagine that somebody could possibly be a U.S. Congresscritter.

Well, OK, maybe.