Hi coach,

I know there are a lot of people here that completely agree with you and have moaned and groaned about it for a long time, me included. What I don't understand is why there isn't more discussion about the manipulation. To me it's pretty apparent, since the cartel is on record a number of times saying, in essence, that gold must be "contained."

Brown has said it in England, that the US had saved the day years ago by leaning on gold.

Volcker has said it by suggesting the fed didn't cap gold some years ago when it should have.

Greenspan has said it with his "stand ready to lease gold should the price rise."

Bill Murphy, Ted Butler and others have for years detailed the evidence.

The US Exchange Stabilization Fund has the authority to trade in gold.

A number of analysts have stated in no uncertain terms that the cartel can not/will not allow the price of gold to rise for reasons we're familiar with.

With the evidence out there, at least to me, it is not only obvious but logical what is going on.

It seems to me that there is an unknown agenda, at least to us, out there, that the continued smashing of the PMs, the stocks, the COMEX, the retail market, etc. is leading to some cartel-desired result that may become reality sooner than later. And that may not be too beneficial to us bugs. But that's just my cynical, conspiratorial nature.