[sammyg2]

I don't think the problem is with the amount of $$$ being invested. I think the problem is that we have a group or groups who are controlling the information that is flowing to the speculators and the public, and that information is being manipulated for profit.

I've already written and asked 4 congressmen and two senators to start a congressional investigation to identify the ties between the so-called commodity analysts and the larger investors. I'd bet they are on the payroll.
If these people are being compensated for what they say and when they say it, that is racketeering.
Just the announcement of a congressional investigation would stop these crooks dead in their tracks and would chase away all but the most stupid speculators. those left would lose their butts as the price of crude gets cut in half a bbl in less than a month. Gasoline prices would fall back to $2.50 a gallon by the middle of summer, Inflation would be stopped in it's tracks, the US economy would turn around and start heading the right direction again.
So why wouldn't they want to do it? Are they afraid of these huge and powerful brokerage houses and those who control them?
Yes, they are.