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.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, March 1985