Gold is prone to price manipulation too, just as much as silver, and big time since decades now, I could name the libor scandal for a start PMs, especially gold and silver, are the natural competitors to paper currency... So you get the idea, there's vitualy no limit to price manipulation ultimately, it's a matter of national security in the end. If paper currencies start to collapse and people rush to PMs as store of value, as alternative... The PMs price will magically collapse, as usual, so PMs are rendered as a less attractive alternative, that's the intent Now there's a move on PMs yeah https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/epic-gold-market-follow-epic-stock-market-bubble But I wouldn't be surprised to see it collapse all over again because reason PMs price manipulation will end the day paper currency's reign is over Problem is that we're entering the digital currency era