Gold market manipulation

[Lauren Johnson]

Good article by The Slog on this, hypothesizing that the Cyprus gold sale is a signal for some seismic activity.

And why is all the physical gold being repatriated or smuggled elsewhere?

What's more, over the last 90 days without any announcement, stocks of gold held at Comex warehouses plunged by the largest figure ever on record. JP Morgan Chase's reported gold stockpile dropped by over 1.2 million ounces a staggering $1.8 billion dollars worth of physical gold in just 120 days. The owners involved took their metal offsite, and it's no longer stored in Comex warehouses…did they do so from a lack of trust? Or did they know something we didn't?

Then there's the chance that the Fed itself was trying to reduce its cost of returning gold: Germany's Bundesbank recently announced it would be moving a major portion of its reserves from the US and all of its reserves from France back to Frankfurt. Nearly half of Germany's gold reserves are held in a vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Nice way to reduce loss of face on safe assets if you work for Washington.

Is there a bottom line here?

There is, but I don't think one can see the exact nature of it just yet. What seems to me clear, however, is that this was a fix….and Cyprus was a cover story for it, not the reason why.

The spot price of gold is now just below $1500. Put it all together and you get .... uhhh ... you get ...