[hove]

Central banks dumping gold to prop up the US$. A continuation of the manipulation of this house of cards economy. But it's starting to collapse....and boy are they getting scared.

[aristeides]

I remember when the UK sold a lot of gold to keep the price down shortly after New Labour came to power ('98?). (There were threads here on FR about how Hillary and Goldman Sachs were exposed in short positions.) Maybe Putin has now been persuaded to do the same thing.