#2 on your chart is more telling than everything one could learn about macro economics in a year.
Last 5 years the world gold supply has increased 1.5% on average, per year.
Last 5 years the supply of USD (or fed balance sheet) has increased 27% on average, per year.
From this alone, we can see who is winning the war on gold price suppression.
It's a mismatch.
B...b..b...but Krugman said dollars are better than gold, because you can't eat gold but you can wipe your ass with a dollar. I'm so confused!
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -Benjamin Franklin Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. -Charles Spurgeon