billybob888 said:
Geeez
Gsr shot up to 83 overnight
Yup, if I had waited until the evening to do my swap I would have made an additional 6oz of silver in the trade. Nevermind, if it keeps going up I will start looking down the back of the sofa for any loose gold change.
Is it time to resurrect my GSR Conspiracy Theory?
Here goes.
Banks want the gold back, they tried confiscation back in the 30's and got a fair bit back, but not everyone complied and people kept their jewellery and it was only people in the USA who were targeted.
So then they tried to make gold irrelevant, it was no longer currency, stories were circulated that Fort Knox and the Central Banks had all offloaded their gold supplies and the price of gold was kept artificially low to discourage interest in it. This gave them time to start buying up while the prices were low.
So then 'they' 'manipulated' the meteoric price rise of gold a few years back to get people to melt down the family jewellery, first all the broken necklaces and pocket watches would have been offloaded but as the prices rose even higher people would have sold the broaches that were 'old fashioned' or the rings they didn't wear. As prices continued to rise the public sold off everything they could get their hands on.
But of course, while this was going on, lots of new investors jumped on the gold bandwagon.
In order to get the gold back from these new investors 'they' 'manipulated' the crash, thousands of people lost their investments as they raced to sell the gold before prices dropped much further, and 'they' bought the gold for cheap.
Now there are far fewer ounces being held in private hands. 'they' know that there is a die hard group of believers who won't trade their gold for fiat, but 'they' want that anyway. They have orchestrated several GSR spikes overs the decades to encourage people to swap their gold for a bucket of silver. This is just the latest.
The final steps;
1. Force people to transfer their savings for retirement into government hands.
Before state welfare and easy credit you had to save money over your entire life in order to fund your retirement, plus have a large well-knit family.
Then the welfare state came along and you no longer needed to save or rely on family for your retirement, you had the state.
You could now give all your savings to your kids and pass on your wealth down the generations.
So the state introduced a forced saving scheme which they could regulate and legislate for their own purposes. So instead of people putting their savings in a bank and using them however they pleased whenever they wanted, they diverted this money into the compulsory superannuation funds. The gov is now back in control of your wealth and can dictate how and when you spend it.
People who would normally buy gold for their stack can now buy gold and put it in the SMSF instead. The state now knows who has the gold and how much they have, they can audit at any time they like and they can change the legislation at the request of 'them'. They could for instance, mandate that all PMs in a SMSF need to be stored in an accredited storage facility, and they are the ones who decide on which facilities fit the bill. Once the gold has been delivered to these government facilities a change can be made to the SMSF legislation and all the PMs can be compulsory purchased for fiat (once the prices have been driven down)
2. Demonise PMs
Say that terrorists, communists, drug cartels, kiddie fiddlers or whoever the latest bogeyman is, are using gold in their nefarious deeds. Get the public to be suspicious of anyone with gold
3. ???
4. Profit!