If this was the case then don't you think that gold would be flying right about now? Remember that anybody can write a colum, but in the end it is just an opinion and the truth will be told in how the market reacts! If only I had a dollar for every colum I have read that claimed that gold was going to go through the roof!!! Trust me.....if the world was so deprived of gold then don't you think that wall street would know about it!