is vastly more than a planned remonitization of the global system with gold confiscation as one of its sources of backing. This gasoline engine is not being shut down to be revamped to run again on E-gas. You may be right though. Confiscation may happen. And then it may not. It will depend on the fascist in charge. However, I am not convinced by your arguements that gold confiscation is a matter of course. This is much, much more so than about the gold. "The alternative(to gold) of course is the direct exchange of food, industrial commodities, energy or specialized services." All of which has be replied to above, plus the added bonus of an enormous military..... "....understand why China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and many others are in the process of bolstering gold holdings." You may or may not know that these lessor players out there obtaining gold are doing so in public view and voice only. They are obtaining and holding dirivitive contracts on a hugly leveraged paper position on the physical metal only to appear as obtaining the metals itself. I can't speak for China. Nobody can. I believe nothing without verification coming from China, U.S. or most anywhere in todays world, and nobody is letting out the 'real' on their gold positions today. The case with Mexico was strictly a leveraged 10 to 1 paper grab for what ever the PR of that was about..... You have presented a well thought out case here, that says what