banks shorting gold - not forced selling, page-16

timber if central banks are indeed ignoring gold, isn't that reason enough to be in? it would seem everything central banks have touched has turned to disaster? the idea of a reserve currency may be old but it stopped lots artificial growth. in many ways this is a financial crisis is decades in the making. how do you know how much a currency is worth when they are all indebted to each other one way or another? having something of substance that dates back to the ages puts some sort of value on things