OK, here's my conspiracy take on this article.

TPTB don't want people buying gold and silver, yet here's this article touting a gold ETF. Ah, but here's the reason this is even made public. TPTB know darn well that gold is becoming more popular despite their attempts to keep the reasons for owning gold suppressed. So what's an evil, lying, cheating g-man & bankster to do?

Piece of cake. Herd those that want to jump on the gold bandwagon into the non-gold gold investment. By directing people into the GLD ETF, that eliminates any further potential stress in the physical gold market. Plus, the people aren't really protected at all, all they own is paper which the Cartel can easily print up to pay off GLD investors.

Terry