yet another bullish factor for gold and silver; a government with a vested interest in manipulating metals prices upward:

With Chinese state institutions hawking gold and silver to the general populace as a good investment (see China pushes silver and gold investment to the masses) - the latest news on this front being that the biggest Chinese bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), is setting up a special precious metals department to handle growing investor demand for gold and silver within the country, the corollary is that therefore the country cannot afford to let precious metals prices fall substantially and thus alienate millions of its citizens who have been taking state advice to buy them.

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