It will be entertaining if it actually goes there, to read the comments in other ideas complaing about manipulation. In a way every market is free. Forget for a while about the manipulating in probably every asset, including bonds. Noone is actually if you control a price of an asset too much either upwards or downwards, the manufacturing (or production) of a goods either increase over or decrease below the actual ("real") market demand of that asset. This is not sustainable. The degree of "sustainability" (and how it vary) most probably impacts the price of an asset as it is manipulated (even if it is manipulated in the open and everyone accepts it). A good example of something manipulated that everyone accept is the water supply and the pipes carrying this water. Because of the fact that everyone accepts it to be regulated to be cheap... So the water will get bad or run out, until the prices go up. Remember, "human rights" is concept hard to define. Try to explain why it's a human right to get water and you will fail.