I completly agree CWALLACE...I called my broker and tried to order some physical gold. No dice. He tried really hard to get me to buy gold ETFs with all kinds of excuses and reasons why this is as good. I believe these guys are getting paid big commissions to push these things. The more time marches on, the more this will be exposed. The problem is those that are manipulating cannot afford to have this increase in bullion price as their whole world is based on paper economies. So I wonder to what extent they will go to keep manipulating this. I read an interesting story how OIL, GAS and GOLD should of all shot up with the Russia/Georgia situation but the exact opposite happened. That takes some serious PR and serious money to do. It is worth thinking about for sure. My biggest worry is that with all the fundamentals we know supporting a much higher gold price, they (governments/institutions etc) will do all they can to stop the price of bullion from rising and wether they have that power remains to be seen but they are doing a great job so far.

G.