To any who still believe that silver is NOT manipulated I say this.

Silver being both an industrial and investment metal with all in mining/refining costs in the $22 range should tell you something.

That something is the financial powers that be do not want true price discovery.

Basic deductive reasoning says such a duality of uses would (should) enable the price of silver to float relatively consistently in a range near to or above its all in extraction costs.

In other words, if the economy is "growing" at plus 4% as claimed then industrial applications for the metal should be a force driving up the price.

If fears of inflation a fiat devaluation or outright collapse of currency are a concern then its investment demand should drive the price.

Oddly /sarc neither appears to be the case.

So yeah, there's no manipulation. It's just us tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists imagining smoke where there is none.