RESEARCHER, I have been suspicious of something for a good while,and while I am far from an ecconomic expert,i did retire at age 47,but I think that was more Gods work than mine....anyway, what I have been concerned with is the price of gold and how it relates to the fiat money system....people buy gold to protect themselves,not as an investment,as you know....gold goes up,dollar goes down...my son in law bought $150,000 worth of gold a few months ago and he called me before he did it ask my opinion about it....I advised him to buy silver instead because of the fear that this "quantitative easement" was a planned attempt to confiscate all of the gold into just a few hands(you know whose hands,too)by vastly cheapening the dollar and then strengthening it after people had flocked to the gold market....people who bought with a weak dollar would have to sell against a strong dollar,taking far less than they paid...then,in turn the temple publicians would increase their wealth by that method of legal thievery,and by buying the gold with the once inflated currency,that,now, has been artificially increased in value....does that make sense to you?....I may be off base with my concern,but this has been worrying me ever since S-I-L bought that large purchase of gold....If you have not read "creature from Jekyll island" by g. Edward griffin, I encourage all people on this board to do so....this book goes deep inside the monetary system of this country,and it ain't a pretty sight