RE:Gold can't hear the War Drums?Here's a reality check for you: it is EASY to surpress the price of gold when you can "sell" gold that doesn't exist via paper contracts on the COMEX. Oh, and as convenience would have it, the price of real gold is determined by the price of fictitious gold.
Gee Wally, who do you think is trying to suppress the price of gold and why? Hint: it is the same folks who are printing the Federal Reserve Notes into oblivion. Gotta put lipstick on that pig to make her look pretty, or in this case what is happening is that the beauty queen of the pageant (gold) is being beat to a pulp so that it appears to look as bad as the pig (FRNs) with lipstick on it.
Gold investors know that the game can't be kept up forever and we also know who wins this struggle in the end. But hey, your fiat paper experiment was nice for about 50 years or so......enjoy it while it still lasts!!