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.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero