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Price Manipulation: Look for Motive
Regulators haven’t been able to keep up with price manipulation in the commodities markets or any other market. Why do games persist? The short answer is because they can, and because they can be very profitable in the short run.
If you’ve Googled gold or silver, you’ve probably come across sites that are breathless about the possibility of manipulation of metals prices. The problem with the internet is that it’s new, too new to capture the rich history of the financial markets. Manipulation of metals prices—and the prices of many other commodities—is an old tradition. Here’s one example adapted from An Alchemists Road: My transition from medicine to business, by Dr. Henry Jarecki (Dr. Jarecki is currently Chairman of Gresham Investment Management LLC.), October, 1989. This publication is not available on the internet.
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