"to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of...

"to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers"

And who is going to decide whether short precious metals positions wont benefit their customers?

I am sure that if the bankers stopped messing with the precious metals markets, precious metals prices would trade differently to what we have seen.

But i am cynical, and I will believe it when i see it, but i doubt anything will change at all when it comes to market manipulation.

Would you expect a lying snake to stop being a lying snake if they told you they were going to change their ways.

This is the genesis of naivety.

Banksters have clearly displayed gross misrepresentation of important figures, LIBOR scandal being a great recent example. Lying snakes by nature.