RE:today's hit in real money...sad. Thank you for the post oldmariner. I agree with your thinking . The powers always hit gold when it is obvious that it should be going up. This time it causes me to think that something ugly is coming down the sewer pipe and we are being set up for a price rise , finally. This flush job is a tamp down the gold price due to scare out the public , inflation be damned. It really gives me anger when I realize that all of our lives we have been told to study hard , get a good job and work our tails off to better ourselves. And now the people in charge gave away all of our money to those who didnt do any of those things. After they run out of OUR money , they start to wildly create more so that they can give away more and drive us further down the rat hole. This has always ended very poorly thruout history and now it is our turn. God help us.