The high frequency fervor of gold buying and speculative trading has crescendo into a unified Pitch, a pitch that overwhelmingly illustrates the ever growing demand for a groups of metals which barely caught the attention of investors, banks or even jewelers just a few years ago now dominate the global landscape for its acquisition.

The most pressing question and most important, is why? Why have this small group of metals now taken center stage to what is now being coined as the 21 century gold rush?

Why are banks, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, individuals and all manner of business interest feverishly acquiring this small group of metals especially physical gold.

A group of metals which barely priced out at $12 and $300 per ounce now demand a price range for one ounce of silver $19.00 and gold pricing out at $1200 per ounce spot price.

Could this be pure manipulation of the precious metals market or a developing trend that requires a more in depth approach to properly understand the mechanisms that drive this unique commodity group, requiring a thorough investigation into the private world of the Precious metals industry is where we will start, as this direction will further reveal detailed information and is necessary to ascertain a plausible understanding as to why the possession of gold has become center piece among world governments and institutions.

Notwithstanding the good old USA's own gold buying and selling frenzy, as well as a growing population of concerned US citizens greatly concerned about the rapidly deteriorating condition of the nation's economy and infrastructure among many other concerns, prefer to have gold and silver assets vs. bank offered financial products such as certificates of deposit or money market accounts.
Now back to the market.

The very basic sub meaning of the word market in essence means manipulation, if demand dictates supply, then it is possible that the source of supplymetal tradecan be manipulated in increases or reduction using any number of reasons why the fluctuations of price in relationship to supply occur.

With this thought in mind we can begin to understand that when ever a resource like gold or silver makes its way back into an economic environment that's in a downward spiral, off times illustrates the true nature of gold and silvers value when currencies devalue but further more reveal how governments avoid allowing precious metals a common place in the economic blood line of its monetary policy for obvious reasons. One need only study a brief glimpse of global economies historical use of the metals to gain an appreciation of how precious metals were used as units of weights and measurements in standardizing trade or a resource equivalent to a currencies value such as salt, special herbs cattle etc to ascertain the importance of how precious metals inhibited excessive paper currency creation, demanding that it proportionately be created in relationship to gold & silver production.