The Gold Manipulators Will Be Punished

The selling of gold we saw last week was another desperate attack by the BIS and some central banks, together with the bullion banks, to manipulate the gold market lower. We saw over 40% of annual production of gold being sold last week which is 1,000 tons. The physical market continues to be strong which I will discuss further on.

Western Central Banks hold less than 50% of official quantities

Obviously, the sellers had no physical gold to sell so they conveniently dumped all this gold in the paper market. It would have been totally impossible for them to do this trade in the real gold market which is only physical of course. Western Central banks have no physical gold of any quantity to sell. This is why they must fabricate paper gold out of thin air in order to dump it in the market. In total, these banks officially have around 23,000 tons of gold. I doubt they even hold half that figure. The rest is likely to have been sold covertly.

No major central bank has had an official audit of their physical gold in modern times. Last time the US gold was audited was in the 1950s. A proper audit would not just reveal that these banks have a lot less gold than they officially declare, but it would also expose the true position of their gold lending or leasing. Most of the gold they have left has been leased to the market in order to depress the price. But this gold no longer stays within the LBMA bullion banks like in the past. No, instead of the intelligent buyers of gold today like China, India and Russia take delivery. This means that the leased gold now becomes a paper claim with no chance of getting physical gold back. So what has happened in the physical market in recent years is that central banks have continuously depleted their physical stock by selling and leasing their gold with most of the buying having taken place in the East.

Current Prices on popular forms of Silver Bullion

This transfer from West to East is the reason why Western governments and central banks are desperate to keep the gold price down. Official gold is no longer held in “safe” Western hands that are easy to control. Instead, the gold has been acquired by nations and people who understand the value of gold. These new gold buyers also know that it is the best protection against the total destruction of paper money that is taking place in our debt infested world. And the countries that are now buying gold are not sellers.

Russia accumulates gold in spite of economic difficulties

The Russian government, for example, has been expected by the West to sell their gold every time they are under economic pressure. But if we look at the chart below, the picture looks very different. Since 2006, Russia’s gold reserves have gone up almost 4X.

And it is the same in China. Official Chinese holding have increased more than fourfold since 2006 to 1,800 tons.

China has accumulated more gold than any nation in this century

But since China has produced and imported over 11,000 tons of gold since 2009, it is assumed that the official gold holdings are substantially higher than the 1,800 tons reported, maybe as high as 8-12,000 tons which would be higher than the official 8,000 tons that the US holds.

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