Remember that story about the boy who cried wolf....? If you keep crying wolf every time you see your shadow, when the real wolf comes no one will believe you, and a lot of people will get hurt.

knock it off.

It's the wolf pretending to be the shepherd you gotta be wary of, and the sheep of-course. It's gonna play out one of two ways, either we get slow cooked or gamma waved.

China triggers Gold collapse, then they step in and buy it all up on the cheap. Nice doing business. :-)

Interesting just in: http://www.international-adviser.com/news/asia/chinese-investors-buy-gold-as-rest-of-world

and here the original column although it goes on about consumers

http://www.scmp.com/business/money/wealth/article/1215940/when-it-comes-gold-price-war-bullish-chinese-consumers-cant

The funny thing is is that most of the investment cos are 'puzzled' by the collapse!

Conspiracy theories are boring.

Btw something is really going on

http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2013/04/16/american-airlines-reservation-system-glitch-causing-a-few-delays/2087931/

This is a newsmap of April 15, 2013, world news events.

Website: http://www.newsmap.jp/

@driftwood The usual suspects are naked short selling paper gold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling

And in relation the current falling price of gold and The Fed's manipulation... http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/04/13/assault-on-gold-update-paul-craig-roberts/

This is causing many physical investors to panic and dump their physical gold.

There are now shortages of physical gold and silver. Either someone is buying most of it (physical metal sales are indeed strong) and/or the big physical gold holders are hanging onto the real stuff while they spook the smaller guys into dumping their physical so they can buy it up cheap. China has been buying a lot of gold.

On the face of it the current rampant fiat money printing ponzi scheme should be causing gold to rise, not fall.

At some point when it is revealed 'The Emperor has No Clothes' gold will rally again but by then it will be consolidated in the hands of the few.

When Goldman Sachs tells you gold is finished and to get out of it should you heed their advice?

Cast your mind back just a few short years ago when Goldman Sachs said...

"These mortgage backed securities are triple A rated and are as safe as 'houses'. Trust us... after all we're doing 'God's work'!"

Then at the same time Goldman were selling their mortgage backed 'in'securities to pension funds they were placing bets that they were going to blow up because they knew they would. So they made money (fees) on the sales and money on the bets.

Nothing but manipulation at its finest!

The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee was organized in the fall of 1998 to expose, oppose, and litigate against collusion to control the price and supply of gold and related financial instruments.

http://www.gata.org/about

http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/the-secret-world-of-gold.html

Or GTA :)

For me personally, I have never felt or believed in any conspiracy theory, or tea party, or Al Qeada, etc. What is fucked up is that ever since OJ Simpson, CNN, FB, Twitter, etc - our society has become the butt of it's own jokes. Everyone jumping to conclusions, racial profiling, the 'towel head' menace, you fucking name it - every ridiculous opinion is broadcasted in real time.

Innocent people died - and that's fucked up. And what do we get? A live version of GTA - Boston, all we need are some hookers and pimps.

Scientists have a crazy theory: The Universe was created by a Big Bang! So far, law enforcement agencies haven't caught the guy(s) who did it. But scientists are way more crazy: they say no one was responsible! :) Politicians also have crazy theories: That bailing out banks will improve the economy!