Could Bad Data Be Depressing the Gold Price? Eric Sprott Says GFMS Stats Are Flawed

``Frank Veneroso wrote a tremendous book in 1998 suggesting that, instead of having 36,000 tons of gold, the central banks really only owned about 18,000 tons, and that they had been supplying gold to the market. What I've done in the meantime is identify that it looks as if there's another 2,000 tpa that have come out of the central banks somehow. Therefore, I throw out this question: Is there any gold left? I suspect that the raid on gold that happened in H1/13 was created by central banks because there probably was no gold left...