As was wisely pointed out in another thread (was it by RXKing? Or was it Jack N Hoff?) MtGox has tied up every American's funds and now they are buying BTC's as fast as they can to transfer them out of MtGox as that is the only way to do it. Basically it's a run on the BTC market and a run on the MtGox bank. Don't use MtGox. You can use others like CampBX.com though. Modzi