Amazing to me, having followed, traded, and invested in gold over the last 8 years, that there are still so many gold skeptics out there. Like being wrong for a decade isn't enough?

Gold bears have trouble with basic comprehension of the bull market. Primary example is Ben Bernanke, who naively stated before Congress that he "didn't understand" why gold was going up. Why Ben, it's easy: It's because you are creating mountains of debt and paper money. You want some gold coins or burning paper money? What's not to understand?

This morning, Gold is breaking out again into bull territory, the beginning of a new phase that will likely carry it back above $1,300 by year-end. The correction is over.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but nobody trusts the government, it's confirmed by the Pew Research Center and The Atlantic magazine. And why should we? We all know that our system is now run by a bunch of greedy, power-hungry, and pork-infested politicians. What's interesting is this comes at a time when the public's confidence in Wall Street is also at an all-time low. So who to trust if you don't trust the beltway or Wall Street? I vote for main street, where hardworking people are still struggling get it done the right way, without pork-barrel spending or shady derivatives products. Since distrust and cynicism are rampant, let me present you today's "Conspiracy +" News Brew, where you can take hold of how the Powers That Be are doing their best to keep hard-working people down:

• The SEC fraud charges against Goldman continue to dominate the news. I'm sure the lawsuit will be a tricky one. BusinessWeek has a nice article detailing what the SEC will have to prove. Namely, that Goldman Sachs was being 'materially misleading.'
• Was there fraud? It's not clear-cut, says much of the Monday-morning analysis (Wall Street Journal)
• For you legal eagles, here's a nice wrap of the defense strategies Goldman might use (The Atlantic)
• 20 Winners and Losers from the Goldman Sachs accusations (The BusinessInsider)
• Malaise on Wall Street continues, with the markets bleeding red (MarketWatch).
• The consensus is that the Goldman lawsuit will embolden the Obama agenda to regulate the finance industry. There's only one thing worse than conniving and greedy investment bankers -- politicians trying to clean up the mess. It just never works out the right way.
• How financial regulation might resemble airport security (The Atlantic).
• You have to love all the headlines linking selling to Goldman Sachs. I think the most far-fetched would be a connection to the wheat market (BusinessWeek).
• It looks like there was a secret, government run prison in Iraq (L.A. Times).
• Jim Sinclair has a brilliant analysis of how TARP money translated directly into bank bonsues (JSMineset).
• What's next for the "Volcano Crisis" -- Reuters has a full report.
• An incredible collection of Volcano images (Huffington Post). Resembles, in some way, the portfolios of mortgages that Goldman Sachs was selling.
• Here's an interesting report on the tax bills for some of the largest companies in the world (CNNMoney). I don't feel like I got any of it.
• For those who still care about Guantanamo, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson's charges are certainly interesting (The Public Record).
• Al Gore's environmental organization is fueling up with cash from Dow Chemical (The Independent). What's wrong with this picture?