Source: Financial Times, 5th March 2010

Gentlemen, please check your tinfoil hats at the door. Later this month, America's commodities markets regulator will hold what should prove to be one of its more colourful hearings to address the gripes of an enthusiastic group of precious metals owners. Not content with having trounced most other investors over the past decade, they claim they have been deprived of far larger gains in, among other things, a "gold price suppression" conspiracy co-ordinated by the federal government and large banks.