{"id":56981,"date":"2021-03-04T19:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56981"},"modified":"2021-03-04T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:45:09","slug":"orwellian-cftc-which-ignored-years-of-silver-price-manipulation-now-going-after-reddit-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56981","title":{"rendered":"Orwellian CFTC, which ignored years of silver price manipulation, now going after Reddit Apes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orwellian CFTC, which ignored years of silver price manipulation, now going after Reddit Apes<\/a><\/h3>\n
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On Monday 1 March, an article in Bloomberg Law by CFTC connected lawyers from law firm Clifford Chance revealed that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reportedly investigating retail silver trader activity in the\u00a0silver price<\/a>\u00a0and that the US Department of Justice looks set to investigate as well.<\/p>\n

Before looking at this shocker of an Orwellian development, it\u2019s helpful to provide some context on the CFTC\u2019s track behavior in this area and to show how hypocritical such a development would be.<\/p>\n

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Rewinding exactly one month previously to Monday 1 February, as the\u00a0spot price of silver rallied to an 8-year high<\/a>\u00a0of just under US$ 30 per troy ounce amid heightened retail interest and the emergence of the #SilverSqueeze, it was predictable that the establishment on Wall Street and in Washington DC, an establishment with a collective vested interest in a low and suppressed silver price, would feel the heat and attempt to counteract the rally.<\/p>\n

On the regulator front, this was demonstrated by none other than the US Government\u2019s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), whose acting Chairman Rostin \u201cRuss\u201d Behnam, released an unprecedented statement, actually on 01 February,\u00a0saying that<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CFTC is closely monitoring recent activity in the silver markets<\/em>.\u00a0The Commission is communicating with fellow regulators, the exchanges, and stakeholders to address any\u00a0potential threats to the integrity of the derivatives markets for silver, and remains vigilant in surveilling these markets\u00a0for fraud and manipulation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Although a short statement from the CFTC, it signaled panic, panic on Wall Street and in Washington, that a #SilverSqueeze triggered\u00a0demand surge in physical silver<\/a>\u00a0could pressure the supply side and thus trigger the collapse of the gigantic ongoing paper silver trading charade.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

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Orwellian CFTC, which ignored years of silver price manipulation, now going after Reddit Apes On Monday 1 March, an article in Bloomberg Law by CFTC connected lawyers from law firm Clifford Chance revealed that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reportedly investigating retail silver trader activity in the\u00a0silver price\u00a0and that the US Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23619,6685,950,985,30883,730,30998],"class_list":["post-56981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bullionstar","tag-cftc","tag-fraud","tag-price-manipulation","tag-reddit","tag-silver","tag-silver-squeeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56982,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56981\/revisions\/56982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}