Crash course for newbs: How & why the Bankers suppress the price of physical gold Although the Trump economy is kicking ass over the Obama one and the stock market is at all time highs, this market recovery remains an extremely brittle one This brittleness is no shortcoming of Trumps, it is a systemic instability built up over decades as a by-product of keeping the worlds money printing machines humming - in other words, the accumulation of unpayable debt One of the key factors in masking how unpayable the debt is, and how vast the 'money supply' is in comparison to hard assets with which that money can purchase, is to artificially suppress the price of Gold Gold and silver were for centuries the basis of our economies - for a number of reasons, but perhaps chiefly among them was their INELASTIC supply.  i.e. it takes an enormous amount of effort mining, refining, smelting and minting to bring new gold bars or coins into the economy, and that limited supply makes Gold ideal for preventing currency manipulation  (as we see when Zimbabwe prints $1 trillion banknotes by the palette loads, or when the Federal Reserve uses digital means in 'Quantitative Easing' to increase the amount of credit extended to the banking system) The 'confidence' in a currency, such as the American Dollar - is therefore threatened when there is a suddenly sharp rise in the price of gold if one ounce of gold could purchase $1000 US last month, and this month that same ounce can be used to purchase $2000 US - then in Gold terms the 'strength' of the US currency has halved this kind of shock loss in confidence can quickly snowball in the world economy leading to Capital Flight from US assets and markets in the last month we have seen an 8.2% loss of $US currency strength against Gold - this si one of the little ringing bells that proves my initial assertion about the brittle nature of the economy. BUT were it not for manipulation of the price of gold through the Comex - the literal weight of capital actually invested into Gold over that period should have seen a higher rise - perhaps 15%, perhaps 20% - its hard to quantify how do they manipulate the price?   Over to Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-04/supply-and-demand-comex-digital-gold feel free to ask me to translate any info in this article into laymans terms, but to start with its good to know about this fiscal concept / term : REHYPOTHECATION : Rehypothecation is a trick the financial world does which should be illegal but rarely is or is rarely policed.  Essentially what it means is where an asset has More Than One Owner - or Claimant to that asset (these multiple owners are often none-the-wiser that another purchaser beleives they have ownership over their asset) In financial markets, assets are typically dealt with through Contracts - a piece of paper that says you have the legal posession over an asset So for example with the Comex, I can sign a contract for 100 ounces of Gold.  That means I put a deposit down , and I have a one month window in which to either sell that contract back to the market, or pay the balance and take delivery of the underlying gold Now, what happens when 99% of contract purchases get re-sold, and only 1% of buyers actually take physical possession of the Gold ?  Well, the market makers / Vault operators can get cheeky. They can produce MORE CONTRACTS than there is Gold to back those contracts up In other words - one once of gold might have 5 people holding a contract saying that they are entitled to take physical possession If all 5 sell their contracts back into the market, the ruse never gets sprung. Its only if too many people pay out the balance of the contract and demand the precious metal that this chicanery is exposed But the BONUS of this trick to the money printers is that it distorts the 'supply and demand'  If 5 buyers all wanted one ounce of gold, they would have to outbid each other - like in an Auction - raising the price of that gold. But if the Comex 'pretends' that it has one ounce of gold for each of those five buyers - and those buyers are none the wiser - the price doesnt rise Thus, for years, the price of Gold and Silver has been suppressed- by Rehypothecation which sabotages the 'price discovery' process