I appreciate your input. Agreed they are buying up assets. Also agree manipulation and corruption is rampant and they're probably doing a lot of things we're unaware of, probably in conjunction with ECB, Japan and BOE, but to allow the markets to continually move up is a slap in the face of common sense and logic of investors. The FED's credibility is hugely at stake right now. They may maintain the equity markets until elections but I believe the data supports a rate hike to bring a sense of normalization into the minds of investors. I think Schiff is right about gold, it's going to go up, but not so sure about about the dollar. The USD has been moving with gold on many days recently, this could be a sign that it is being viewed as a safe haven in times of turmoil as gold is as it being the only alternative currency in the fiat world that people have confidence in.