US to export a record 750 tonnes of gold this year, mainly to China as local investors respond to high domestic inflation

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1387379700.php

Plosser Says Fed is Prepared to Respond to Europe Crisis

This is code-speak for "we will bail out Europe too", as the Fed has for several years now--in the form of currency swaps.  This is beyond lunacy.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-27/plosser-says-fed-is-prepared-to-respond-to-europe-crisis.html