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[ConferredDiligence]

Sam, I think you are over reacting a bit, I simply posted this as an alternative bullish case for gold in 2017, perhaps to those who do not subscribe to the manipulation scenarios. None of us know exactly how much price movement in gold truly is due to manipulation alone, perhaps only the larger short term moves are and not the longer tern trends, Adam does mention the gold futures market as being part of it though. GLD as he describes it could be the major mover of price longer term though, due to investor inflows/outflows from other markets for various reasons. I happen to like Adam's articles and have learned quite a lot from him, he is on our side and does have a lot of respect among gold bugs. I do agree that golds up trend will continue this year based on the reasons he lays out near the end of his article, manipulation will have an effect but, for the longer term price trend, GLD may very well be the main driver.