By Jeff Nielson
ETF Daily News
Once upon a time, an entity called the “World Gold Council” was created. It was supposed to be an industry trade-group, which (like all industry trade-groups) promotes the health and growth of their industry. But that’s not how it turned out.
To understand the World Gold Council, one need do little more than examine its history. It was created in 1987. Was this the beginning of some new, Golden Age for the gold mining industry? Hardly. In fact, it marked the early stages of the most successful era of gold price-suppression in history, and the complete destruction of the global gold-mining industry – with more than 90% of the world’s gold mines being bankrupted.
If the World Gold Council is really an “industry trade-group”, then it was/is the most incompetent/inefficient such entity ever created. But, of course, the World Gold Council doesn’t serve “gold” or even gold-mining. It serves paper — banker-paper, to be precise.