You are raising a good topic and it centers around gold. I do not have any doubt there has been efforts made to keep gold as low as possible, but that cannot be done very easily. There is a " battle " going on over currencies among most exporting countries. The U.S. wants China to revalue upwards its yuan. That makes Chinese exports more expensive and does China no good. I just read an article on Yahoo where they expect the C$ to reach $1.20 against the U.S.$. I not only see the problem you raise, but protecting the vakue of paper money in each country to protect the expots and jobs with each is at the root of the " battle ". The loss of jobs is going to create a lot more civil unrest in each country, and the leaders want to avoid that at any cost....hence the printing of more money. I do not see that ending anytime soon. So this steady rise in the price of gold will not stop. My hope is that we do not get a panic into gold. There isn't enough to go around so who knows where it will end.