Selling short. Hedging. Apparently billions of bucks are lost due to gambling that a stock would go down and it SHOT UP! Gamestop?

I do get it either.  But love that the average guy took down the hedgefunds.  

Hope it continues. 

I am no socialist and I do not pretend to understand the world of high finance, though I still have a small set of employee-shares from a past employer. It returns a modest nest-egg each year.

I am not too bothered about people gambling their own money on the stock-exchange if they do so responsibly, as investors who understand what they are gambling on - other people's assets and livelihoods.

What concerns me much more is the mere gamblers. Buying and selling games-company shares is one thing; but distorting the values of commodities and industries by mere bedroom gamblers who do not understand and care about those, the livelihoods they support directly, their customers and the genuine long-term investors in them like insurers and pension-funds; is bad for everyone.

Silver, like all metals, has a value far beyond just rare and pretty. It is very important in a wide range of technical applications and artificially inflating such materials' costs for a quick buck in a market rendered unstable by that, is wrong.