The US Government is pulling out all stops in order to protect the perceived values of it toilet paper money. I for one would see that negative propaganda as the catalyst for an all out assault on the Gold market.
These must be desperate times for the U.S financial guru's, if they fail to derail Gold then the USD will derail faster than the 13 Billion in debt that they create each day.
Logic tells me that if inflation fires up in the USA then the US Government have to raise interest rates and this will kill their rather fragile recovery. On the other hand another terrorist attack in the USA will kill off the recovery and speed up the start of a depression.