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In my previous commentary, "Silver market fundamentals DISTORTED by bullion-ETFs", I pointed out how (so-called) "bullion-ETFs" were (with rare exceptions) merely a tool of the manipulators - with two primary purposes.

First of all, bullion-ETFs soak-up billions of investor-dollars each year, which would otherwise be invested in real bullion, or in the shares of precious metals miners. Naturally, this has helped to depress the price of silver, and severely depress the price of silver miners - since almost all of the diverted investor-dollars were diverted from the miners, and not bullion, itself. I also showed how these fraudulent investment vehicles...

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