Deliverator, you stated "Now if you look at the price of gold,which has been in a bull market for the better part of the last decade, you might get a glimpse of when the U.S. started running out of gold."

I would like to point out to you that perhaps a far more pausible reason for the rise of gold during this period of time has been because of the massive increase in the printing of U.S. dollars in which of course gold is measured. A secondary reason as to why the price of gold has been steadily rising is because of it's purchase by the the citizens of the steadily improving economies of India and China. I would also like to say that if the great conspiracy were really true and no longer the impossible secret that it is to keep, that you would see the price of gold at a far higher price than it is today.