Re: buying opportunity When the fed raises rates in may and gold drops $100 it will be our last significant buying opportunity before the gold bull becomes authenticated. Central banks are posturing right now but they know darn well that their own balance sheets cannot withstand rate increases that they are proposing to curb raising prices in the everyday real world. Let's not forget inflation is an increase in the money supply. Raising prices of goods and services are a consequence of that inflation. cPI has gone to 40 year highs of 7-8-9 %. But inflation (increase in the world wide fiat currency) has gone up 100's of % in the last 20 yeara.