Lawrence Williams - GATA is right; Gold must be Manipulated

``... the latest demand for physical metal does definitely suggest there is something logically wrong with the way the free market in metals is operating at the moment.  When demand dramatically exceeds new supply, then economic logic suggests that prices rise accordingly, but this is just not happening... Sales of paper gold to suppress the futures market do seem to be key to the current price patterns -- and the amounts of money (admittedly paper again) which are required to do this would seem to suggest some kind of ‘conspiracy' to keep the gold price under control as an economic weapon. ''