The US is sinking ... sinking ... sinking, page-22

Exactly. Feds buys bonds to keep the yields down which then flow through to the mortgage rate and personal loans setting to artificially keep it low, QE. John Paulson who has more money than every HC poster put together bet against the gold trend (conspiracy) and got a bloody nose. Meanwhile our gold producer are price taker and getting the manipulated price for their physical gold from the paper market quotes. Now where can I direct the CEO of those producers to complain about the manipulated gold price and help us little holders?

Same conspiracy in the IO market. I just call it survival of the fittest.