. >> dave gilmore, you heard steve forbes and you heard the chinese spokesperson, what do you make of all this? this is a nasty story and a market-moving story. >> the chinese are not of one view on the future of the u.s. dollar or government printing presses. inflation. we can name as many officials on the other side of this that say they have no plan to change their currency reserve mix. i think the practice, it's hard to discern through the tea leaves. china has a week yuan policy. it fixes its currency to the dollar, and it's left it relatively stable since the height of the crisis in 2008, and has done little to allow it to appreciate which is really the direction it should flo go in. >> but what do you say to this -- in the story, it says that beijing has, in fact, doubled its gold reserves to 1,054 tons. that means they are acting at the margins to diversify. >> well, china as a central bank had very low reserves. and low relative to a mountain of kurn say re serve s need ed to have some gold . >> . >> but it sounds like -- another gold market is far too small to ab absorb shin