Have You Caught Gold Fever? The Value of That Shiny Metal Is as Artificial as Paper Money http://www.alternet.org/economy/146150/have_you_caught_gold_fever_the_value_of_that_shiny_metal_is_as_artificial_as_paper_money?page=2

"The gold price manipulation scheme is the fraud that makes all other frauds possible, the scheme that enables the rigging of all markets and the very wealth transfer you complain of," GATA treasurer Chris Powell told AlterNet. "Ending this fraud will make it a lot harder for the others. GATA advocates free markets. But even more than free markets, GATA advocates our right to know what our government is doing, especially when it attempts to set the value of all capital and labor."