What if central banks have NOT lost control of gold?

Count your secretary/treasurer among those who have been expecting the commitment of traders signal to be validated again for the thousandth time. But insofar as it is not validated and the monetary metals continue to rise, your secretary/treasurer can envision two possible explanations and offers them here with the justification of a slow-news Sunday night and the expertise of a high school graduate.
That is, either central banks, the biggest participants in the gold market, have lost control of it, the physical gold part of the market is overthrowing the paper gold part of the market, and the market is in the midst of the fabled “commercial signal failure.”
Or else central banks have not lost control of the gold market, and the gold price continues to go exactly where they want it to go.
That would mean that the consensus policy of central banks in regard to gold has changed recently — that they now want gold rising again, most likely to assist in the devaluation of their currencies, particularly now the U.S. dollar, as well as devaluation of the world’s debt, and that the huge short positions of the banks in the futures markets are actually central bank positions that must continue to increase even to unprecedented levels to keep this devaluation “orderly,” to use a favorite term of central banking. (Really, who else but institutions that are authorized to create infinite money and that hold large gold reserves could accept the risk of such shorting?)

This post was published at GATA