In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs
source, a «dramatic crash in [physical
gold coin] demand,» that interest in
gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that
gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that
gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally
sourced and financed
gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the
gold industry, that
gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [
gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that
gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use]
gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal
gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against
gold in the short article.
According to
industry sources, producer hedging and the use of
gold loans are estimated to have resulted in about 750 tonnes of accelerated supply to the
gold market since the start of 1996.