The price of silver of 18.00 US/ounce in todays dollars is the equivalent of 2.20 US/ounce in 1980 dollars... (Remember, silver hit 50.00/ounce in 1980)

So,Silver is trading in the year 2010 at about 2.20 US$/ounce in 1980 dollars...(Which is about 1/25 th of the high)

No, the price of silver can't possibly be manipulated, right?

Thanks, Goldman Gensler ! and all our good friends at JP Morgan... They are all such great people....and doing such an outstanding job of ensuring we can all continue to live in a free and prosperous world, a world where there really is no inflation and our cost of living keeps getting lower and lower....because they say so...er, because the Crimex, makes it so, at least for things like silver or gold.

Goldman Gensler apologizes to all those hundreds of thousands of people who could be gainfully employed at different gold and silver mines all over the world and escape abject poverty...if only silver and gold were allowed to trade in a free market and be valued fairly so these resource companies could actually stay in business and keep thousands of people employed.... but...

Hey, it's not his problem? right?