I think I am starting to see too many conspiracies. I think the premature leak of gold negative FOMC minutes was planned to coincide with Goldman's sell gold short attack and Cyprus selling its 10Mt of gold. It allowed the banks to get Cyprus' gold ast a cheaper price and aid Bernanke and the cartel to drive down gold prices. The co-odinated attack on pm stocks such as SLW was obvious even though the price of silver did much better than gold.

Jim Sinclair on King World News made similar comments.

"Sinclair: “Today was a coordinated attack on gold. We had the Goldman Sachs recommendation to short gold. We also had the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee notes quite unusually released before the opening. Then we had the mainstream media focus on the sale of Cyprus gold, and Mrs. Lagarde on the wire telling people everything was fine with the economy.