the gold bug line is that the VPP (or TRTB), or whoever they are) generally want to keep gold down, not manipulate it up. gold bad for normal system; so, gold bugs generally believe in a conspiracy-theorist way that the VPP’s are always doing their best to suppress the price of gold by selling lots of it at opportune moments. the conspiracists might be right. the concept is that when the VPPs finally lose control, gold might explode to its true value. So, if you think the VPP are manipulating gold, i’d probably agree with ya, but they’re not at least yet manipulating it to profit from by harvesting money from the masses. that’s the stock market. the gold bubble hasn’t really got going yet. Check if anyone in your wrkplace buys gold. when it’s a topic of discussion, then the bubble is underway