The International Monetary Fund is in the process of revising the laws that govern the trading of gold by the world's central banks which will radically change the ability of central bankers to suppress the gold price, a major factor depressing the price of the yellow metal that has been an open secret for years.
This sort of systemic market reform will likely have a huge impact on the gold market. It is like the 'Big Bang' changes to world stock markets that started in the 1980s and led to an explosion in equity ownership and higher price-to-earnings ratios.
That gold prices have been artificially depressed for decades is not hard to establish. Consider the nominal peak oil price last year of $78-a-barrel, twice the previous nominal peak value reached in 1980. Gold by comparison hit $725 an ounce last year, yet is still below its nominal peak value in 1980.
What has been happening is that central bankers have been swapping and loaning gold in the gold market to keep the price down to produce another false indication that inflation is under control.
