Silver tends to outperform gold towards the end of a precious metals bull market, driven by momentum in gold and generalist money entering the market.
Record short interest in PSLV due to institutional skepticism could lead to a short squeeze, potentially causing significant losses for those betting against silver.
Central banks’ physical gold accumulation is driven by funding politically expedient domestic spending programs, not hoarding, and won’t reduce available gold for sale.
Rural land acquisition focuses on generating income through rents over time, with taxes becoming less of an issue as rents increase.
Digital currencies, including fractional gold and silver, are expected to be adopted throughout commerce, enabling more efficient transactions and greater privacy.
Government royalties, taxes, and off-site concessions on mining are rapidly increasing, making mines attractive targets for governments to “steal from miners”.
High-grade epithermal deposits tend to be small and less attractive due to limited gross ounces, with preference given to large deposits of at least 2.5-3 billion recoverable reserves.
Canadian banks are a “fortress of strength” due to oligopolistic control, but their lack of physical gold in reserves is problematic.
Canadian miners can pay workers in US dollars if their local currency falters, gaining a cost benefit against American counterparts due to the declining Canadian dollar value.
BlackRock Silver and Suma Silver have high-grade silver deposits in Nevada, but their small deposits with limited gross ounces are less attractive than large deposits with at least 100 million ounces.
The dollar price of gold has fallen 99% since 1913, from 1500 milligrams to 10.4 milligrams, while the gold price remains at the same altitude as other currencies parachute off the plane.
Banks can make 4% per month on the gold basis arbitrage by buying spot and selling futures simultaneously, but this trade blew up during COVID.
Elevated inventory levels of gold in the US persist due to the threat of tariffs, with banks worried but skeptical about actual implementation on gold as a financial market.
For US gold investors, a rising gold price is a profit opportunity, allowing them to keep their gold and earn returns instead of selling.
The gold price has been in a bull market since 2020, reaching new highs daily, driven by increasing distrust in the credit system.
Silver is well below its all-time high of $50 in 1980, requiring a 60-70% increase to reach parity with gold’s performance.
The gold-silver ratio, historically around 30, currently stands at about 20, suggesting potential silver outperformance in the future.
Tariffs, trade wars, and hot wars are driving the gold price up by being bad for the economy and credit, making gold a hedge against these risks.
Banks’ main business is making small spreads on gold with enormous leverage, not betting on price action like retail investors.
The flow of gold into the US from the rest of the world is explained by spread traders’ need to have gold inside the US in case of tariffs.
Trueflation reports a 1.35% annual inflation rate, sampling 30 million prices across the economy, compared to CPI’s 880,000 prices with a long delay.
The Goldman index of 24 commodities is dropping by 8% per week, with oil down 14% in 6 weeks, impacting food and home building costs.
Zillow forecasts a 1.1% housing price rise in the next 12 months, a significant decrease from the 12% housing inflation over the past 5 years.
Commercial bank loans are rising at a 7% annualized rate since Trump took office, suggesting good deflation with more goods chased by the same dollars.
During the 2008 crisis, the Goldman commodity index dropped 73% peak to trough, while oil dropped 75%, contrasting with current rising commercial bank loans.
The current 5-year silver deficit is approaching a critical point, with only 300 million ounces or less left in the LBMA float in London, potentially leading to a dramatic price increase.
Central banks and bullion banks are the primary manipulators of silver and gold prices in the paper market, engaging in a massive book-squaring operation to cover their short positions.
European banks have increased their short positions in gold by 2-2.5 times and in silver by 56% over the last two months, while the Big Four Shorts in Gold have been reducing their positions for six consecutive weeks.
The Fort Knox audit is considered impractical and expensive, with the real issue being that US gold reserves are encumbered and swapped out to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
China’s gold reserves are estimated to be north of 20,000 tons, accumulated in preparation for a potential monetary reset and the eventual collapse of the American Empire.
The majority of silver is mined as a byproduct of other metals, making it difficult to increase production to meet rising demand and supply shortfalls.
Even if silver were repriced to 10 times its current value, the number of ounces produced would remain unchanged due to its byproduct nature.
The moment the big four and eight commercial short sellers stop manipulating the market, silver and gold prices are expected to skyrocket rapidly.
The end of paper manipulation in precious metals markets, combined with the silver supply deficit, is anticipated to trigger a major shift from paper assets to hard assets.
Other commodities like oil and copper are also subject to market manipulation, suggesting a broader pattern of price control in commodity markets.
The US dollar has lost 99% of its purchasing power against gold since 1971, exposing the myth of dollar safety after the temporary decoupling from the gold standard.
The Federal Reserve, created by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, has inflated the money supply, leading to 90% of stock market wealth being held by the top 10%.
COMEX gold market, a credit market rather than true gold market, faces a tipping point as massive gold outflows reveal artificial price-fixing and lack of physical gold to support leveraged shorting.
The Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944 established the US dollar as world reserve currency, lasting less than 30 years before Nixon’s decoupling in 1971 led to the current fiat currency system.
Since the 1970s, big banks have manipulated gold prices on COMEX by shorting gold with 100-200x leverage, maintaining a permanent short position at almost no cost.
BRICS nations propose a 40% gold, 60% local currency trade settlement unit, potentially saving $7 billion per year in intra-BRICS trade through Digital Ledger Technology.
Central banks, especially in the East, have increased gold purchases from 118 tons/year in 2020 to 290 tons/year in 2023, recognizing fiat money decline and US debt risks.
Countries like China, Russia, and India are accumulating gold and repatriating reserves, thinking decades ahead, while Western politicians sold off reserves for short-term gains.
BRICS nations seek a non-dollar energy solution for oil imports, accelerating gold purchases to reduce reliance on US monetary policy and the weaponized dollar.
Modern Monetary Theory, suggesting solving debt crises with more debt, has historically failed, as seen with Romans debasing currency over 250 years.
Basel III regulations require banks to hold more segregated physical gold, leading to gold leaving COMEX and threatening banks’ ability to manipulate prices.
The US dollar’s credibility is declining due to high debt and weaponization, prompting a slow shift away from the dollar, with gold-based alternatives emerging but not fully replacing it.
The banking lobby acts as a bully, threatening people and states, necessitating public exposure and embarrassment to counter their influence.
Banking lobbyists consistently lie across the board, making false assertions that can be easily disproven by informed citizens who engage with legislators.
Investors have an illusion of ownership in the current financial system, which fails to provide true ownership rights during broker failures or higher-level financial system collapses.
The banking lobby falsely claims that property rights don’t exist in insolvency, contradicting evidence from the Lehman bankruptcy and Federal Reserve explanations.
Contrary to banking lobby claims, the UCC code explicitly allows for property use without agreement, highlighting a significant misrepresentation of legal standards.
The assertion that code changes were necessary for modern electronic securities systems is false, given that NASDAQ was founded in 1971 and electronic trading existed for 30 years prior to these changes.
Grassroots efforts by informed citizens who understand the issues and engage with legislators are crucial in exposing and challenging the banking lobby’s false narratives.
Public exposure and embarrassment of the banking lobby’s tactics in front of a wide audience is identified as an effective strategy for dealing with their bullying behavior.
The state’s control over money is the result of a 400-500 year process of building state power, destroying private money, and abolishing competing currencies.
State control allows for expansion of spending and borrowing during wars and emergencies, as well as manipulation of money supply for state gain.
By the late 19th century, the state had established a monopoly over note issuance and bank regulation, eliminating institutions that could challenge its monetary control.
The gold standard was not a free market system, but a state-controlled mechanism relying on government regulation to maintain uniform monetary standards.
Despite limiting currency debasement, the gold standard still allowed for state manipulation and control over the monetary system.
The classical gold standard represented a step towards currency nationalization and away from true market competition in currencies.
The gold standard was a brief experiment that paved the way for the nationalization of money and managed currency systems.
The transition from private money to state-controlled currency was a gradual process spanning several centuries.
The current paper fiat money system is a direct result of the long-term process of building state power over monetary systems.
Today, there is widespread agreement that money should be controlled by sovereign states, reflecting the success of the state’s monetary takeover.
The abolition of truly private banking and market-based competing currencies has led to the current inflationary monetary environment.
To safeguard wealth during financial crises, shift from stocks and bonds to real assets like gold, silver, copper, uranium, and physical commodities that possess utility, rarity, and can’t be artificially created.
Central banks’ aggressive gold purchases, using created currency and showing price insensitivity, likely drove a significant portion of the gold price increase from 2020 to 2024.
Gold and silver prices are reaching new all-time highs due to central bank buying, gold moving from London to New York (Trump tariffs), and increased physical delivery demands risking exchange defaults.
The current gold-silver ratio of 85-90 indicates silver is undervalued, making silver coins an attractive investment, especially for younger individuals with long-term financial horizons.
Equities are significantly overvalued, with potential for a 10% S&P 500 decline or worse, driven by excessive debt and the need for new currency creation.
For wealth protection, consider acquiring silver coins as a base layer of financial security and explore shorting overvalued stocks using long-dated put options.
Bioregionalism, a neopagan ideology, aims to dismantle nation-states, create local feudal city-states, and establish a supranational world government, as warned by Leopold Kohr in “The Breakdown of Nations”.
Decentralization and localism, often seen as resistance to globalism, paradoxically facilitate a one-world order by making populations easier to control through divide and conquer tactics.
A just world order requires national sovereignty; a one-world government must respect individual nations, unlike the EU prototype which dissolves sovereignty and imposes top-down control.
Malthusian ideologies view humans as a virus outgrowing resources, justifying orchestrated societal collapse; this misanthropic spirituality shapes many elite decision-makers’ worldviews.
Occult ideologies like gnosticism and neopaganism, denying human exceptionalism, have infiltrated elite circles, shaping their worldview and justifying anti-human policies.
Alternative media, now a new mainstream, is co-opted by elites; active thinking and research are crucial to uncover truth, as the ultimate goal is to make people love their cage under globalists.
Mark Carney leads a deindustrialization scheme called “quantitative easing for the planet” or the Green New Deal, aiming to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint.
The Cosmopolitan Railway concept, proposed by Lincoln associate Gilpin, is a precursor to China’s World Landbridge initiative, which the US should join for global development and peaceful coexistence.
RFK Jr., a convincing manipulative liar, plays the David vs. Goliath figure while being a powerful Kennedy, using charm to dupe people in the COVID movement despite contradictory statements.
Secession movements in the US, Canada, and Mexico are analyzed; their founding principles and true motivations are questioned by Fox Green.
Energy, infrastructure, and a real physical economy with industrialization are crucial for prosperity and preventing war tensions, providing a future orientation that reduces conflict.
De-industrialization and a post-growth world, pushed by figures like Mark Carney, will lead to collapse, as seen in the Soviet Union in the 1990s, due to Malthusian beliefs and anti-growth ideologies.
Patriotism means supporting your people during hard times and working towards a real physical economy with jobs and industrialization to prevent collapse, rather than seeking secession.
Narcissists like RFK Jr. can appear authentic while being manipulative, using charm to dupe people on a moral level, requiring a “muscle for truth” to recognize and expose their contradictions.
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