Gold is approaching the $1300 benchmark and silver the $18. It's been almost straight up since Tuesday the19th regardless of the billions every day sold short by the Western banks. They are trying like hell to stop it but they can't anymore. Demand for physical has been extremely high and supply very low for too long.

Did you know that both the US Commerce department and the Cencus bureau have been forcing coin shops to give them information related to sales since about 10 months ago. They want to know how much gold and silver is being sold cash sales vs credit. They are not asking who is buying what yet but coin shops, bullion dealers and scrap buyers are legally supposed to keep track who's buying and who is selling what.