There's a subtle, but important background process through all of this that people need to be aware of and appreciate.
Information flow and control of the masses stems from a few base instincts which (when controlled) become the most valuable tools in directing decision making processes in people.
One such avenue is the assumption that humans are creatures of habit.
If you can create a situation where this thought process is interrupted or controlled, you can indirectly influence decision making in humans to meet specific agendas.
How does this relate to this situation?
People love predictable outcomes. Create a situation where the outcome is no longer predictable and people will doubt it.
In as much as the global credit and housing market was heavily manipulated, so too is the precious metals market. Gold, Silver and other commodities can be directly influenced at the top level by vested interests.
Now industry commentators make 'predictions' based on historical facts & assume future trends from this process.
Whilst the likes of Sinclair, Celente, Chapman, Schiff and others have made public statements and predictions, they do so based on historical trends and logical estimates for what comes next.
The problem is, they do not control directly what can come next.
But those that CAN control what comes next have an active agenda to ensure that the population discount what these people tell them. ie It's a propaganda war.
It's always been this way, which is why you get a minority of people who shout warnings in a crisis situation, but are ridiculed, laughed at and publically denounced.
Why?
Why would you set an active agenda to denounce a warning? Why would you want to not give a balanced arguement to a financial commitment? Why wouldn't you give credence to history as a possibility of future events?
These are the questions you have to ask yourself, which in turn leads to inevitable conclusions once you pull back the thin vaneer of propaganda.
Denouncement of those who would question the status quo and directly influence the decisions of the public against your agenda is an obvious tactical ploy in combating reason and logic.
They don't need to drag these people off into the woods and silence them.
It's far more effective to push a button and crash a commodity price at the right time to effectively character assassinate them instead.
You will find quite clearly that despite history and logical analysis of markets, future market activity remains heavily influenced not by free market outcomes - but direct intervention and market manipulation.
As such, it's VERY difficult to accurately predict future outcomes without being a target.
At the end of the day it's very important to note that despite target figures being missed by outspoken market commentators, the underlying reasons and core arguement for this investment strategy remains as sound as it ever was.
If you people didn't believe that, you wouldn't be on this forum in the first place.
By all means, take market predictions with a grain of salt.
Not because these people don't know what they're talking about and should summarily be dismissed because they couldn't predict a price point in a market that's influenced to 'prove them wrong'
But because of the fact you'd have to appreciate the market IS manipulated and ANY price point prediction is merely guessing and speculation.
At the end of the day you have to remember that those who are in control of the market have an active agenda to keep you asleep - by any means possible.
They laugh at the market commentators who make predictions to the public on which way a remote control car will turn next - when they hold the remote.
Why tell those people to be quiet, when you can just turn the car the other way and let the public see that the person was 'wrong' all along and they shouldn't listen to him at all?
Think about it...
