As we moan and whine over the manipulation efforts to hold down the metals.... There is another side of this phenomenon that is truly amazing:

In an investment environment infested with the uncertainties of bubbles, political crisis, financial crisis, low yields and bad stock returns - the Powers that Be have kept participation in the precious metals bull to only 2 % of investment capital !!!

Absolutely unbelievable!...... How did they accomplish this???

The suppression scheme has made a controlled stealth bull that is short term volatile but long term consistently upward sloping for an average gain of 18 % a year for 10 years straight! A 10 year bull of nearly 20 % a year is extremely unusual and is a reflection that the natural upward forces to gold must be exerted either short term explosively or in a muted stealth steady flow. That is why this bull will last 15 to 16 years instead of the normal 5 to 7 year bull cycle.

They have never allowed the natural forces that are propelling gold upwards to explode, but rather guided gold in a controlled slow ascent. Meanwhile doing very volatile short mini cycles that bring investors in and then cut their balls off shortly after, Thus they have bummed out a breed of investors that do not have the stomach for this roller coaster ride. All rank and file “average Joe” investors that have gotten involved in gold because of a building excitement are soon met with losses from a Cartel Raid and fold. This is not an accidental pattern!!!

For the veteran long term holders of gold, we all know that if we are smiling we are about to get hit in the head with a shovel. Another more recent phenomenon is that there is never any weakness in the DOW…… but if there is, then metals are hit immediately. This is called the “shut all the exit doors” strategy that counters investors an opportunity to shift out of stocks to something that is doing better.

This coupled with a paid media using Behavioral Finance techniques to always make the investor feel that gold is a bubble that is about to pop. That gold has topped out. etc. That it is too late - you missed the boat on gold.....This multi faceted plan have been very successful to limit the participation in the gold bull market to only 2 % of the investment dollars out there. What an flabbergasting and amazing result !!!

When Paulson makes a 5 billion dollar pay check in 2010.... do they emphasize that he did it with gold ???? No they smooth over that fact. In fact the propaganda and paid shills are being paraded and efforts have intensified in the past month to negatively control the thought processes towards gold!!!

Next you will see that profits from the majors whose CEOs and CFOs are all paid Cartel honchos will be muted and hidden. No big earnings when clearly there should be....... Oh well..... Spank the monkey again.

And this after 10 years of steady gains.... a stock market that has been down 10 % over the same period..... a bond market that will not give any yield greater than 5 percent a year.... a financial crisis in 2008.... Rampant instability ...etc. etc.

I religiously work all my relatives and friends for 10 years and not one of them was convinced to commit a dollar to precious metals. Lately I have resorted to showing them my Schwab statement for 2010 that shows that I made 383 % on my entire portfolio. Although this is my best account and I do not know if I can repeat this feat...... A near 400 % return should be convincing..... but it is not - This still has not gotten one of them to commit one dollar to the metals !!!!

At the end of the day what have they accomplished? Short term...They have bought some precious time..... but long term...they have basically subsidized Huge Chinese and Indian buying and almost guaranteed the decline of the West and the rise of the East.