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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 25750247, member: 68&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t even trust the futures markets because the temptation to sell what you don&#039;t own when you know you can manipulate the price ever lower is overpowering.&nbsp; Like the embezzler who is sure betting company funds on a horse is a sure thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of my chief concerns is derivatives.&nbsp; It is these that make the system a house of cards because they can provide outsized profits on small moves.&nbsp; No one can predict how these would play out if there is any disturbance to the status quo.&nbsp; Nobody understands even one of these computer traded instruments and there ae thousands that are all interconnected.&nbsp; Our economy has proven to be &quot;robust&quot; despite changes but there has never been this situation with political, international, and strategic forces all working at once with every force tending to create more demand for silver.&nbsp; The banks must unload their shorts but doing so is likely to ignite the panic and prove largely unsuccessful.&nbsp; I believe it will require government intervention and that it will be global.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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