I know what you mean about the depressing part, but it was well written and really shines the light on how manipulating gets done. Besides, as I noted editorially, there are compensating factors that offset the D bank story.
It just becomes one more of a cascading deluge of events all of which contribute to a rising metal price.
They popped the "conspiracy Theory" bag once and for all. We won't have to listen to the disingenuous liars saying how it ain't so.
The SGE is putting real pressure on true price discovery.
The cartel can naked short all they want, but sooner or later they are gonna have to pay the piper and deliver the real metal, or be outed as a fraud.
There are so many geo-political issues ready to explode, any one of which will put tremendous upwards pressure on gold, and any one of which can create a dominoes effect that will be impossible to contain.
The future for gold is bright, even if the future for the country is bleak.