how much hype do you believe ?The price of gold by set by a group of men in the city of london,and take it up or down not on any fundumentals of gold production. M ost money is made by the up and down price of whatever. If you buy gold at $500 ox and dont sel it you have made no money. If you control the price of gold and have driven it up to where no one is willing to continuing to buy it and you have sold most of the gold you have , how do you make more money? Where do you invest the money you have made? In something you control by shorting gold and driving the price down to where people are starting to buy it againe and you have bought on the way down .and you keep repeating the cycle.
because the money system is continualy puting more money in cerculation the price of most everything over the long term goes up and every so often a colapse is created, and then the up price continues. Check the price of cars ,houses,gold ,oil , wages etc over the last 20 years and tell me which have gone down.