Friday's Gold Smash Reeks Of Central Bank Corruption

``In total over 5 million ounces worth of paper gold traded during the smash. As of today, the Comex vault operators are reporting only 202.3k ounces of gold to be available for delivery.  With no relevant news or events reported, it can only be concluded that the price drop in gold was an attack on the price by entities intent on preventing gold from the process of legitimate price-discovery.'' -- Of course; they have to do something like this with not only the expanding QE bandwagon, but also the orchestrated, increasing talk of negative interest rates: fuel for the hard-assets fire....