The usual suspects up to their usual tricks for the usual reasons.
London Trader: LBMA Is a Ponzi Scheme and the Silver Isn't There.
Oh won't that be a day of days if this is true and the truth comes out.
“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead