Market exchanges and short sellers manipulated silver prices in 1980 by restricting buyers to protect their own short positions.

“It was the exchange and the board of governors who were shorting silver all the way up to the top and they instituted rule seven which didn't allow the Hunt brothers to support their positions”

The president's practice of announcing major trade policy shifts via social media, which impacts the stock market, constitutes a form of market manipulation that should be challenged.

“At what point does this become market manipulation? My friend, we are we are so far past even pretending to care about the answer to that question.”

Market participants are actively using non-public or privileged information to make profitable trades before the President's official announcements.

“minutes before Trump made the announcement there was a short position put on by a very big whale, very large crypto person betting to short the market. And sure enough after the announcement, the market imploded. And then shortly after that, the person covered for a $213 million profit.”