Shares of Jazz Pharmaceuticals (Stock Symbol: JAZZ) opened the trading day on April 27, 2011 at $33.59 per share, the stock then went on to trade down slightly with normal volume until approximately 10:00 AM EST, when it plummeted for approximately two minutes before finding a bottom at $23.50 per share.

The New York Stock Exchange has been closed in observance of Good Friday, the Friday before Easter which is part of the Easter Holiday since its inception. Due to extraordinary circumstances, it was open on Good Friday in 1898, 1906 and 1907.

In 1973, the “Hunt Family” of Texas, possibly the richest family in America at the time, decided to buy precious metals as a hedge against inflation. Gold could not be held by private citizens at that time, so the Hunts began to buy silver in enormous quantity.

Gold still remains far below its all-time inflation-adjusted high, estimated at almost $2,500 an ounce set in 1980, an era of Cold War tension, oil shocks and hyperinflation. Gold prices have almost doubled since the Fed cut “Interest Rates” to the bone in 2008 in an attempt to shock the economy back to life after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

We’re on a collision course with the “Worst Bond Market Collapse” in decades and the warning signs are as clear as day. Since the “Bond Market” is ready to crash at any minute, Bloomberg Television has an excellent bond market crash video with Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University, on how to prepare.