[Sherman Logan]

they can make this illusion stand up by ... printing money out of thin air

Temporarily.

[MrB]

That’s the whole point of QE3/QE4-ever - keep the balls in the air with free money, let the central banks acquire as much gold as they can before the crash,

then come out on the other side with a gold-backed currency which, coincidentally, they hold all the backing for.