I really don't care for Gary Savage's theory....It's giving the bankers , the hedge funds, the central banks way too much credit that they actually know what's going on....They manipulated for the short term as only they can do , manipulated and made a buck, but to think they are that smart is way over the top....they just aren't ....why were bank bailouts needed in 2008 for example, it wasn't because they were smart, it is because they were stupid and had no idea what was going on....they had the right friends in Washington to bail them out but other than that, they were not that smart, how many hedge funds went broke ? You know out of all the analysts I saw or heard interviewed on BNN ( Canadian Business news network ) and there was alot of them,, only only one predicted the oil price crash ONLY ONE.....Josef Schackner predicted it , well before it happened....The others were recommending oil stocks to right before the price crashed.....you are giving all these people way too much credit IMHO.... They are not that smart