Banks accused of rigging silver priceQuote:Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Bank of Nova Scotia have been accused of attempting to rig the price of silver, in a lawsuit filed in the US.
Earlier this year, Barclays Bank was fined £26m ($44m) by UK regulators after one of its traders was discovered attempting to fix the price of gold.
Market manipulation is the mechanism that runs the financial markets. If the regulators indeed are willing to arrest there would be no financial markets in a short time span. Financial markets don't produce tangible goods which can be compared for fair pricing. The financial market will always have an imbalance since their is not real debt limit.
When CBs and treasury step in to goose the econ in a particular direction e.g. liquidity pump or liquidity drain this is called monetary policy. But indeed their actions are just another form of market manipulation with the support of policies, laws and political goodwill.
$15/barrel oil... The commodities lehman moment arrives as well as Sovereign debt volcano!