To: Hawkmoon who wrote (91543 ) 6/15/2012 10:55:47 AM From: dvdw© 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217781 Hawk says; Gold and Silver. Keeping those commodities at elevated prices above natural supply and demand curves ......... What your suggesting cant be known. The Natural Supply and demand curves for these commodities are unknown for any number of possible futures. Its that kind of thinking that sorts folks into classes of more or less fully prepared for the past. Gold and silver and other metals, have carried themselves into this present riding on applications, jewelry,film, dental, circuit boards, plating components etc.....you get the idea. Coincident to what you've characterized as a natural supply and demand...was always the historical awareness that these metals and a few others also, were preferred methods of payment versus wide ranging alternatives. So as natural supply demand applications into this present, are unaware of the next present ,where the properties of these products may be asserted as sponges, whose purpose is to sop up excess printing of paper money, the next period, shall extract a different utility demand foundation, breaking away from the near past and reconnecting with some older period and memory of use functions which satisfied and gave confidence to commerce in trade between self interested parties.. Hence, central banks better be accumulating these and other metals as awareness from the broadest body of informed transactions are forecasting the lack of confidence in the going ons of recent years. These metals can correct the perception about malfeasance within the current period only if they are converted from prior natural application to super system function, as counterprogramming the errors and behaviors of the system composites (system composites=government/bank cabals). The New Natural Supply and Demand metrics would thusly be applied as sponges designed to sop up the excesses, to be effective in saving face for the super system, this can only happen from much higher price levels. Taking the above as step one...we can prepare for step 2, the insinuation of value as process by reform.