It is my understanding that gold could be purchased in exchange for FRN's during inflationary times, and then sold later, at a perhaps higher price, and if the proceeds from the sale were redeemed in lawful money, no tax would be associated with the transaction. Since managing your own assets is not 'commerce', this is the reasonable result.
GATA has done a public service by exposing the manipulation of the gold price in dollars, but the manipulation is being done by/for the US govt, thus will not be halted by the CFTC no matter how obvious it becomes. Last week JPMorgan sold $1.24 billion worth of (paper) gold in one minute; since everyone now knows that the price is manipulated, this forced sale dropped the price only about $10, and the market price recovered within one day - see: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/todays...instream-press. Longterm the gold price tracks the total debt perfectly.

Freed Gerdes