Ruf, I had also read quite a few articles about this very same thing and I appreciate the post as it is very straight forward and easy to digest. The last piece that I had read suggested that it is the $1070 level that these criminal banksters would dearly love to achieve to maximize their fraud. I have a suggestion for GATA. Investigate the possibility of becoming the middle man for the real gold produced by the mining companies. Perhaps 1-2 hundred tons per year would be enough to scare the heck out of the cartel.