Skol do you have an invested interest in some way with gold. I see from history that you were positive posts with oil on Beach Petroleum thread, I too travel with beach years ago. Why is it your mission to inform people here of the negativities that gold has not got. Whether a currency or a tradeable asset it still it regarded at the upmost if not the most creditable form used in trade and done so often for example in oil. If I was asked to carry out a mission in volatile times and was asked paid either in gold or paper currency my response would be gold as its a stronger motivator.