Theprice of goldis expected to increase $6 to $10 a day until an agreement is reached by the House of Representatives according to Regal Assets. While most investors remain optimistic that there will be a deal reached by the deadline, the topic is causing other areas of the US economy to be exposed such as state debt and bank closures.

According to the FDIC three banks were closed on Friday by the regulators taking the count of U.S. bank closures in 2011 to 58 averaging about 8 per month. The 157 bank closures in 2010 was up from 140 in 2009, and more than six times of the 25 bank failures in 2008. Only three banks failed in 2007.

The stress of US local debt to the national debt has international investors demandinggold bullionover the US dollar. The Central Banks of the Russian Federation keep about 50 percent of its reserves in United States dollars released its official international reserves statement showing a net accumulation of more than 200,000 ounces of gold.

Tyler Gallagher of Regal Assets says "Russia’s gold behavior is grounded in the country’s hard-learned lessons about commodity markets". Since its financial crisis in 1998, Russia has enacted policies intended to counterbalance the historical cycles of commodity prices to protect the economy during downturns. China, which is facing high inflation, has a 10-year gold buying plan for its central banks.