RE:GoldIt doesn't take a genius, thus my two cents worth might be valid, to determine that the myriad connections, communications, agreements and other big words needed to successfully consumate a successful manipulation in price of gold---is so staggeringly massive as to render that probability essentially impossible. Of course there could be such a group of nefarious folk running the world behind the scenes; but Tucker Carlson interviewed Elon Musk last couple of nights and the topic did not come up. IMO