The Best way to keep folks from buying gold or silver is to make fun of it, have the media call you stupid, and then crash the price. Follow the plot folks. The economy is weakening despite all the money printing. Europe is a disaster despite the printing. Japan is printing more than us. The last thing they need is for the "bulk" to run to the safety of gold. So look at what they did. They had Goldman out downgrading it's outlook on Gold. Goldman is just an arm of the Governement. An arm of the Federal Reserve. Then they floated news about "European countries might have to sell their gold to raise cash". Then they got the media to ramp up hate stories about it. That puppet lunatic Krugman was front and center calling gold owners his version of idiot. Then the "big night hit" and down went the price. Mission accomplished. The Fed wanted to discredit golds position as an alternative to their crappy paper money, and pounded the price.

Rob Reiner(From today's International Forecaster)