I am no expert on this but the awareness that both the gold and silver markets are being manipulated by the paper markets...that in some cases are trading 10 times the amount of actual physical gold and silver...seems to becoming common knowledge. I had heard about this before now I believe it. So what do we do about it ...for me in the coming weeks I am going to buy some silver (maybe gold)...take deliver of it and put it in my deposit box. Many of us have 1000's of $$ invested in silver and gold stocks and are getting ripped as the price of gold and silver is artificially depreciated on the paper market to protect the US$. I don't know how significant the trend will be for investors to buy more physical gold and silver...but if enough people "get mad as hell"...and start picking up more physical silver...it seems to me the manipulators will be hooped. It just seems to me that the most recent manipulation may have been the last straw...and the "cat is now out of the bag". My action of buying a few $1000 of physical silver may not amount to a hill of beans...but if it became a trend ....and a few 1000 maybe 10,000's maybe 100,000's did the same it could be a gamechanger. It appears that some of this has started already ..it will be interesting to see what happens in the coming months.