With gold getting whacked hard yesterday, it was a time for sober reflection in the gold-obsessed Rick’s Picks chat room.  A trader who goes by the handle “Padre” saw “the Jungian collective unconscious” at work. We would take a less kindly view, more Freudian, that saw only id and ego in a state of gratuitous conflict.  But we’d be the first to admit that it can be far worse when these forces are aligned; for only then can they produce something as irresistibly corrosive as…money.  How so? Well, if you saw the classic sci-fi film Forbidden Planet, you may recall that the Krell civilization, using an infinitely powerful fusion reactor, built a machine that could conjure up all of their needs when ordered to do so telepathically.  Unfortunately, while they slept the reactor conjured up monsters from their primitive subconscious (see photo below), and that was what ultimately did them in. » Read the full article