BTW you have a great way of explaining it!!! Thanks! I sent your response off to some other folks who picked up on this story and got freaked out!!
You're welcome.
And that's a good thing. There's way too much garbage circulating on the internet that has no basis in fact. This thread is a good example, about 90% of the responses probably being much like the ignorant reactions of the folks you mention.
I've been trading this stuff for over 40 years. I rarely post anything unless it's a case of utter economic or futures-related rubbish, like this one was.
That presents a problem in that the moderators then think that my strongly stated and factually-based opinions amount to merely trashing some economic illiterate (which is usually true) instead of being an effort simply to disabuse people of tin-foil hat notions.
While I see a lot of junk here that cries out for a response, most of it simply isn't worth more than a laugh, never mind the effort to respond. This ridiculous "article" screamed for a response.
You're lucky that you saw my response at all since I'm now "moderated", after 11 years here, which inspires me to just not bother 99% of the time.