Gold's Message to Global Financial Markets

While commodity prices have collapsed worldwide due to the economic weakness, gold prices over recent days have surged higher instead. Why? As the ultimate barometer of both economic uncertainty and inflation fears, the price of gold futures has surged in the past few trading sessions. What conclusions are we to draw from this? That with the Fed having incresed the money supply by 39% in 2008 alone, the financial markets are anticipating higher inflation ahead. However, I suspect that this higher inflation will likely occur only if the economy begins to rebound.