You're entitled to your opinions. I find Mish's arguments...

You're entitled to your opinions. I find Mish's arguments somewhat more convincing than GATA's, but we'll have to agree to disagree on that.

I make a living from buying and selling stocks, and right now I'm around 60% invested in gold stocks, so I hope gold has more to rise this leg up. But I personally don't find it helpful to my trading to worry about whether someone wants to manipulate the gold market or not. I trade the market I see, I want to be in it when it's going up, and out of it when it's going down. If I focus on that, I make money, and I don't see how I'd make any more worrying about manipulation. Gold goes up and it goes down. It always has, and hopefully it always will. When it stops fluctuating, you will know for sure it is being manipulated.