So in reality, if you consult more grounded, data-driven sources like the International Business Times or Forbes, the picture is really clear what's going on and post-mortems that were done after the fact into 2014. The first variable is that gold mining companies were having a particularly bad year around this point, which is an indicator to investors to be worried. These companies took out expenditures and loans to establish new mines like Nova Gold did in Alaska, and they were not coming through. The picture looked a lot like a lot of these companies that provide a lot of the supply of gold were in trouble, and that's a bad sign downstream. The second factor was automated commodities trading. Tons of trading entities had set up algorithms, but they also set them up with very similar or the same buy and sell points. So when the market veered in one direction, you had a number of groups who were following the same pattern. This wouldn't have had too much of an effect on the larger price of gold if it were just one or two entities automatically buying and selling. But as commodities analyst Jeffrey Christian told the International Business Times, quote, it was more than 1,000 entities trading in a 10-minute period, which has a severe impact.