"wish the central banks would sell ALL their gold" - My thinking is to echo the GATA line that these past years of 10 or 20 or 30, when price of gold was keep low and steady from a steady selling to meet all demands, including jewelry, by certain Central Banks, like the United States, and a few Central Bank like China saw that as a golden opportunity to load up on physical gold on the cheap, and also to plan out into the future when fiat money, especially the US Dollar, when it does a crash & burn, to have the most valued & stable national currency on planet Earth. Make sense because what determines if a nation is a super power is their military, and super power militaries cost big money, and if your money is worth the most compared to other nations, then you get the most value(military hard goods) for your cash. So imagine, US Dollar loses value, more and more so. Now ask about USA citizens getting payed in US Dollars that buy less and less of goods from Wal-Mart(aka China) until USA citizen becomes poor and poorer comparied to citizens of China until the wealth makes a complete transfer from the USA to China which has bought on the cheap the physical gold the USA has in secret sold these past 20 years to keep the US Dollar strong. Best to ask o49r gold_tooter how she will wave the American Flag when the USA military crumbles and falls into sickness because the American citizens that pay for it will themselves have low valued US Dollars and a flip-flop will happen, as in cheap goods from China because of a false strong US Dollar will become a weak dollar and goods from China will be too expensive for the average Joe. - Nature always has a balance. Too cold winter met with a too hot summer. Over valued UD Dollar to be replaced with the other extreme. - The average Joe won't be able to afford a USA Flag since most likely they will all be made in China and be too expensive. But then, flag waving will go out of style in step with the value of the US Dollar having a misstep and fallen down. |