Edgy,

"The cartel still is in business and I do not see any evidence of them folding their arms soon."

I see it the same way and keep looking for signs that things may be changing. So far not much luck.

However, bassardan's 5:20 post of Adrian Douglas' analysis of the way the cartel has figured out another way of staying in control of gold futures on the COMEX is quite a revealing piece of work, imo. And it may answer what many of us have wondered about why some of the ETFs were created in the first place. What a slick, conniving, scamming bunch.

To me, his analysis is so revealing that I wonder how or if it can be used as a smoking gun to bust these guys up. Probably a long shot and probably not. But one can hope.