have you ever considered this senario? keeping in mind the US trade debt to China is astronomical., and the Cineese have bought over 500 tons of gold during the last 5 years.

The US cartel, administration , Feds call them what you may ,made a sweetheart deal with the Chineese to sell them "tons " of gold on the cheap in lieu of increasingly worthless US greenbacks..So. the Cartel holds the gold price down and the Chineese accumulate gold and when the agreed upon time is reached, the Chineese dump the worthless green backs. The US taxpayers take the hit.

The Chineese are not in a battle with or in control of the cartel but in colusion with them!!

This would kinda fit into the well reasearched book "Gold Warriors" by the Seagraves.The entire book is now on the internet.

A must read for any Gold bug.