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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C Jay, post: 1471517, member: 13184&quot;]I will agree though that the market is subject to manipulation.&nbsp; Since we&#039;re on the subject of corn, there is one clear example from I think 2007.&nbsp; Oil was heading up to a point where gas was approaching 5.00 per gallon and serious money was being put into E85 and ethonal production.&nbsp; OPEC dumped over a billion dollars into corn futures with the intent of drive prices up.&nbsp; At the same time they hired a marketing/PR firm to started a &quot;your burning food in the gas tank&quot; campaign.&nbsp; The public bought into the &quot;down side&quot; of E85 and corn prices had sky rocketed with the blame being placed of the E85 folks.&nbsp; Once OPEC felt that there position was secure they backed out of corn futures and prices returned to normal levels.&nbsp; If I remember correctly, corn production that year was at an all time high and E85 production had little to no impact on the supply.&nbsp; It was about oil, not corn that drove the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hear a lot of theories about manipulation in the gold market, but I don&#039;t see it.&nbsp; Gold and silver respond to economic uncertainty nore than anything.&nbsp; The only clear example was the Hunt brothers and that took place in a time of economic uncertainty (rampid inflation and a run on the dollar).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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