The bankers are in control of the US markets and the politicians are just pawns in their plans. The manipulation of the metals and the stock market is so prevalent that it is now obvious to any one who will look at it objectively. Other nations are now taking advantage of the manipulation or are now part of the graft. China is the most recent and obvious beneficiary of too cheap commodities. Who amung us hasn't wished that they had bought at the depressed prices of the last few years.

There is a dichotomy between nations that cow to the US and dump and their gold as directed from new york, and those that see the US manipulation and protect themselves by moving away from the $ and toward protecting their national interests.

One can often see the nations that seek to protect themselves maligned in the US press. Russia, China, the arab nations, South American nations. I even see the occasional linking of gold to criminals; drug dealers and terrorists.

This looks more and more like a war against truth, freedom and honest money. It seems that physical gold and silver may be the only way to protect one’s savings. All forms of fiat are subject to the large power interests that use markets as a tool for theft. The new mafia is in new your and dc and no longer needs to run numbers or break legs. The theft is constant and affects all dealings that involve fiat.

For me the “change” that we are now experiencing is one of intensity not the clean up I was hoping for.