On October 1, 2025 the government “shutdown” began. They said it was about budgets. I think it was about gold.From October 1 to October 7 many data releases went dark. Fewer reports. Fewer audits. Less light. Perfect time to move metal.Between October 8 and October 14 inventories quietly shifted on and off exchange. Labels changed from registered to eligible. Paper selling picked up. You did not need a public sale. You only needed fresh supply to appear where price is set.On October 20 gold hit new highs. On October 21 to October 24 the slide started. Headlines blamed profit taking. They blamed ETF outflows. They blamed “cooling demand.” Convenient timing.By October 28 the price was down hard. Official U.S. gold ounces still read the same. That is the trick. Leases and swaps add supply without changing the headline number.COT publication was suspended during the October 2025 U.S. government shutdown, so there’s no fresh COT to corroborate a suppression pattern this month
Why would they need to cover this up?
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>>61235127Interesting theory
bro, the greatest retard in the world was buying gold at 4300, and here you are, looking for schizo theories about why it went from 4300 to 4000, after being 2000. Get a fucking grip.
>>61235161so they could sell
>>61236650And?Selling all the gold at current prices doesn't even make a dent in the budget.
>>61235127I tried explaining this and got ignored to one of my investor friends. Feels bad man.
>>61235127Yeah....Beyond Meat should have skyrocketed to $20..We are ON to something...Jews....
>>61236695yeah because of this >>61236644they're laughing at how stupid you are because gold has been rallying since 2024
another fortunate part of this is that i was also able to sell my gold and no one knew either
>>61235127Even if America sells all their gold at the ATH price it wouldn't cover 1-2% of the national debt btw.
I don't think the shutdown was about gold, but they definitely took advantage of the situation. The CFTC would not have allowed that kind of a stealth price slam, but they were conveniently shutdown.
I think the feds don't fear the price of gold as much as how it's distributed among the population. If gold and silver are in the hands of the people instead of all vaulted up in a few centralized bullion banks, the people would have a network of value to trade outside of the dollar. That's what the feds really don't want. The fact that that BTC is banned in China, but allowed in the west leads me all the more to suspect that BTC is CIA created and there's a mechanism built into the blockchain protocol to control it. Gold competes with the dollar as a reserve asset. BTC competes with gold as a hedge. However BTC does not compete with the dollar. This is the locus of the bipolarizing of the world I think.
The message from the financial experts on buying gold is always to buy the ETFs. The ETFs are the lever by which the bullion banks are able to oversell their gold holdings by magnitudes of order larger than should be legal. The ETFs ARE the shorts. When they collapse, the price comes down, and the bullion banks are able to reclaim the actual gold at a discount. Keep it centralized. Keep it out of the hands of the people that would supplant their powers of leverage.
>>61237631>BTC competes with gold as a hedge.Stupid. People literally buy BTC because of massive inflation caused by going off the gold standard. Gold has measured value perfectly for millennia, and even after gives de-monetized gold 55 years ago. BTC doesn’t measure shit. Gold and BTC aren’t competing. Whatever BTC is or is trying to be is irrelevant to gold. Bitcoin could go to $1,000,000 per coin and it wouldn’t make gold even 1% less valuable than it’s always been. You can’t make it anymore so people buy BTC to give themselves a fighting chance. I would rather be working poor in the 60’s when gold backed the dollar when it was relatively easy to have 3-5 kids and America had thriving local communities all over the country, than have 20 million dollars in BTC today in this fucked society dystopian nightmare. BTC isn’t gonna fix shit.
>>61237644>BTC isn’t gonna fix shit.Checked. I never said would fix anything. It's just value by node consensus which will ultimately fail. They can't even figure out OP_RETURN and it's already causing "soft fork" arguments. Pozzed to hell.
This ends in the Mises "crack up boom," and when the last piece of trust is spent in the US dollar, you'll get your era of sound money back. But it will be a tumultuous painful transition for society, and could wipe out an entire generation.
>>61236650I'm asking why do they need to cover up that they sell? Why not just sell and be completely open about it?
