Being a skeptic, given the ‘co-operative’ relationship between the U.S. and Japan in all things economic, like buying bonds, currency ‘arrangements’ etc….you don’t suppose there is a link here similar to the U.S. ploy re GLD and SLV re ETFs in that the supposed ‘gold’ is not ever available to the buyer or that a ‘sub custodian’ that is not audited does or does not have said gold safely stored in a vault…instead of being leased/leveraged 100 times. Is it possible that this is yet another tacit arrangement to inflate the hypothetical tons of gold that don’t really exist in order to do anything possible to depress the paper price?

What are we all to think, even whe the headlines are 'positive'?