why would they want to collapse gold? they dont but they still need to manipulate for the time being.
the us has over $9 trillion worth of debt. they also have according to their figures something like 245 million ounces.
this equates to $220,500,000,000 which is about 2% of the total debt.
they need the price of gold to rise to cover the debt they have i.e. to collateralise it. and they need it to go to at least 5% which is about $1800/oz