As an engineer I am constantly looking for metrics, meaasurable evidence of what is actually happening. One look at the charts for both gold and silver tell an oft repeated tale.

Gold traded to $765 around 11:30

Silver traded to $9.85 around the same time.

The gold chart went into freefall into the close and finished at $735. This is called painting the tape to show a price that sends a message. A $30 hammering in a little over an hour, ... straight down

Silver lost nearly $.60 in the same period.

Of course, all market and political data released around that time should have been precious metal positive, but the new jerk crooks have to keep the pms down to give the impression that the $ is worth a crap. Gone are the days of plausable denial. The entire world sees what the crooks are doing.

The physical markets for Au and Ag are stronger than the paper market of the CRIMEX because the crooks can't use a computer or a promise to creat real gold or silver..

Soon my friends, soon.