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Who says they want to? My guess is that the TBTF banks are using Fed money to bid it up in the first place and using the profits to cover their bad loan losses.
Over priced oil just puts $$$ into their pockets and gets burned. PMs, on the other hand, are a threat to the fiat banking system and must be controlled at all costs.
Rodebaugh wrote:Oil is MUCH larger. Way many more players. Thats my guess?
I beleive 7 companies control 92% of the market? The reason is beause they don't want oil prices to go down....they want their profits high!
True.....but I was thinking more along the lines of traders as opposed to producers. Also Oil is an almost 100% consumed commodity whereas gold and (less so) silver are recoverable.
Gas actually needs to be a little higher to catch up with PMs. It's less than 20 cents per gallon when compared to 90% coins, where it used to sell for a quarter a gallon in the early 60s.