A Policy Driven Silver Crash

``Some questions should be asked of the CME Group in the wake of last week's happenings. If CME Group was truly concerned with a silver bubble, why then did it not raise margin requirements on the metal shortly after the commencement of the Fed's second quantitative easing program (QE2) when it was obvious that the increased monetary liquidity would lead to increased commodity speculation? Why wait until after silver has had a meteoric and is at an all-time high before delivering the hammer blow of not one, but four consecutive margin requirements increases? The CME Group surely knew what the outcome of their decision would be on the silver price. ''