how do you feel being manipulated and losing 50%+ of your invested money as of now?
ERm, why is it even called manipulated? Just more like a stream of bad events..
Yes, events like MtGox, China semi-banning bitcoin, and the heartbleed bug helped crash the price.
I agree (although I don't think the heartbleed bug had anything to do with bitcoin's price declining). 2014 has been a bad year for bitcoin because a lot of things have all happened to cause the price to decline and people have been given good reasons to sell in large amounts.
If it was not for gox and SR2 getting hacked, then the price of bitcoin would likely be much higher then it is today