Flashback, July, 13, 2011.....
Ron Paul: "Do you think gold is money?"
Bernanke: "No it's a precious metal."
Ron Paul: "Why do central banks hold it? Why don't they hold diamonds?"
Bernanke: "Well, it's tradition. Long-term tradition."
"Recording the inevitable demise of tyranny..."
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| Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, American citizen assassinated by Obama |
"Because of this historic fact, we would prefer to die and be buried together with our ancestors right here where are now. We ask, one time for all, for the government to decree our extinction as a tribe and to send tractors to dig a big hole and there, to throw our dead bodies. We have all decided that we will not leave this place, neither alive nor dead."

old is a currency, the only money, and its use is for that very purpose because of its rarity. For rich old farts like Buffett who have cozied up to the Federal Reserve's printing press, the rise in precious metal prices is a signal that their fraudulent game is up. People like him cannot get behind gold, only assault it when it threatens their monopoly on control.
the writing on the wall.

Time is wasting before the myth of the dollar's worth vanishes completely. This week the U.S. Treasury said it would auction off $72 billion of new debt taking the federal government's debt right to the limit. This auction follows a week in week saw the new Report on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Se
curities. China has reduced her exposure to U.S. debt by $249 billion. It is unlikely countries like China that have financed U.S. debt will be likely to do so in the future as the U.S. credit ratings continue to be embarrassed by terrible reports and outlooks such as this recent one by Weiss Ratings that placed the U.S. lower than Mexico.