Bernanke's gift (or tempering the taper tantrum)

``"Ironically, the stock market, like the bond market, might already be reacting to the new rate reality, while gold's sudden demise, if indeed caused by the so-called "paring down of quantitative easing," might have been false. If that is the case, a make-up rally could be in the offing.....in fact it might already have been launched.''