RE:The longer the central banks keep gold down The longerThe USSA has exactly ZERO ounces of unencumbered gold "left" after selling, swapping and gambling it away to purposely weakn the currency which has fallen from 100 cents to the dollar to 1.5 cents to the dollar over the past 105 years via the odious FED. This was done on purpose to destroy the purchasing power of the greenback and at this evil the federal government has been inordinately successful.
During the last "outlawing" of the private ownership/holding of gold by the monster FDR in 1933 using an UNCONSTITUTIONAL executive order, only a very few inattentive sheeple were cowed into parting with their monetary freedom. I suspect that should the same chicanery eventuate again the same behaviour will be displayed by the citizenry but even moreso as in 1933 many more dim-witted individuals trusted the untrustworthy whereas now one would have to have rocks in their head to believe any statement concerning any subject by any politician with the exception of the Honorable Dr. Ron Paul and perhaps one or two others.
And as Ron was fond of saying (and still is), "Don't steal. The governmrnt hates competition."