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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1476835, member: 22143&quot;]I completely agree with this statement.&nbsp; &nbsp; However proof that something exists does not require a direct observation of that something.&nbsp; Proof can be an observation of effects of that something.&nbsp; For example, they have discovered planets that can&#039;t be directly observed but they know they are there due to their effects which can be observed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is why I asked the question that I asked.&nbsp; If the market was behaving as a true commodity pricing mechanism for silver, yet there doesn&#039;t seem to be any shortage of silver and demand is pretty static, then there should not be wild price swings as we have been seeing.&nbsp;&nbsp; If there is an explanation for this, beyond &quot;markets just work this way&quot;, that isn&#039;t some sort of manipulation, then it should be easy to state.&nbsp;&nbsp; Else it sounds like the excuse the Church gave for imprisoning Galileo for life for stating that the planets orbited the sun and not the earth.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there is another explanation.&nbsp; That would be that silver is not really a simple commodity and in fact is more importantly a monetary security.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t trade with the same rules that apply to real commodities like hog jowls on the CME and instead has properties closer to that of a currency.&nbsp; This would also fit in with the fact that it trades on it&#039;s own unique exchange, the Comex, which has it own unique rules, where just two other items trade one them being gold.&nbsp; Amazing this unique exchange for just 3 metals considering the many hundreds of other commodities out there.&nbsp;&nbsp; if one accepts this, then all the thinking about silver mines, industrial demand, corn on the CME, etc are really irrelevant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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