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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1007692, member: 3011&quot;]I think the difference is that with silver in particular, even a single mid-sized institution can successfully manipulate the price through the futures market unless prevented by regulation.&nbsp; For example, all of the silver in all of the Comex warehouses amounts to less than $3billion.&nbsp; This is peanuts, and invites manipulation unless the regulators are on the job.&nbsp; The 700 million ounces of annual silver production only amounts to about $15billion.&nbsp; The Vanguard mutual fund company owns over $10billion of Exxon common stock alone.&nbsp; These are not large numbers anymore in the world markets.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other markets like wheat or oil are too large and liquid for a single player to manipulate.&nbsp; Even OPEC lost the ability a long time ago to make price changes stick.&nbsp; And no single shipping company can control world-wide shipping rates.&nbsp; Airlines also tend to be price-takers, not price makers.&nbsp; If this was not the case, they wouldn&#039;t be perennial money losers.&nbsp; To the best of my knowledge, no trading company in the world can manipulate the price of the US dollar.&nbsp; It takes central bank sized resources to do that.&nbsp; The list goes on and on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you are confusing the definition of manipulation with normal price setting that all companies do to maximize profits and market share.&nbsp; So now it is time for you to do the usual word-dance and twist definitions to prove your point. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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