. . are working very hard to build insecurity. All the Right Wingnut literature is flooded with panic generating FUD (and invocation of Gold as the cure).

As soon as the floggers are having trouble pushing it higher (I expect fairly soon) they will be sold out and turn off the pumps. Prices will plunge.

When gold hits a serious low, and conditions look right, the floggers will buy it all back "at above market value" from the suckers they sold to, and start the hype pumps again.