Sprott Physical Asset Fund is standing in like a champ against a determined bear raid.
I suspect the bear are trying to shake out the specs, given that we are into the delivery periods in the metals at the Comex, and the numbers appear to be intimidating in potential physical offtake. No better time to hit an asset than in the thin holiday trade. 
"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel