For sure things are worse today than the summer of 2011 debt ceiling crisis and for sure TPTB planned to make sure the same run away gold price market was stopped cold this time as this would have simply exacerbated the problem and maybe awakened Americans to the real issues at hand. Another successful interventionist period in the view of TPTB. The question is can they now hold back the physical demand or do they even want too as gold rising in an environment that is not as highly charged is much less of a risk than a rise in a highly charged environment. I assume the Chinese have only been too kind but to assist as they buy gold cheap but can they keep giving it too them cheap?? do they have it to give away cheap or have they blown their short term present intervention inventory?