So what are you putting your savings into? USD?

The "price" of silver and gold is irrelevant. Silver and gold have always been worth about the same throughout history, when compared to other commodities. When gold was $20 an ounce 100 years ago, you could buy a really nice suit of clothes for $20. Now that gold is 100 times more expensive, it's still only worth a really nice suit of clothes. The gold didn't increase in value. The dollar went down in value. It has lost approximately 99% of its value since the Fed and income tax started in 1913.

One good thing about the "manipulation" you see is that it presents buying opportunities. Also, silver is way underpriced relative to gold. It's so much cheaper than gold, and the upside is so much better, I would concentrate on buying silver. Now if you had millions to invest, I would say get a lot of gold too, or you might run out of storage space. :)