"Why? The bullion banks will just borrow some more free money from the Fed to buy even more gold and silver shorts"

If they knew every trick in the book Gold would still be trading at $250. I've said this before and I'll say it again, no forces are stronger than real market forces. Manipulation only serves to delay the un-avoidable.

This "change in the market conditions" will only increase, and increase at an accelerated rate. To quote Jim Sinclair" This is certainly not the time to be trading or to be on margin." Stay long.

Later