If the owners of mtgox are smart, they should do lots of arbitrage to other exchanges, then they earn some money and use this to slowly withdraw to their customers.. Price will rise and people will have less FUD.
... In essence stealing from their clients while they hold their wealth hostage. Profitable... but so is robbing banks. Anything but ethical.
... in essence, that is exactly what normal banks are doing. They lend your money 3 or 4 times the value and gain huge profits. Banks keep the profit for themselves but that's why I'm saying:
...to slowly withdraw to their customers..
If the owners of mtgox are smart, they should do lots of arbitrage to other exchanges, then they earn some money and use this to slowly withdraw to their customers.. Price will rise and people will have less FUD.
The price at Mt.Gox just reflects the fact that (almost) no market is really being made there now, no liquidity, no buyers, no sellers. So arbitrage is not a possibility either.
Price is fluctuating a lot so there are buyers and sellers.