Richard Nachbar...
Bill:
It was great to hear several of your regular contributors list all the "reasons" in your Midas column last night why gold had to be taken down hard on Monday: option expiration, FOMC meeting, positioning for the Toronto G-20 meeting this weekend, etc. etc. But another big "reason" for the takedown was missed. This clip from my newspaper last weekend says it all...

ANOTHER $162 Billion of debt had to be swallowed by the world's savers again this week (a $2 Trillion annual rate). Madness!