Silver Monetary System News Today

If youre still waiting to buy physical silver to start a stash, youre now playing financial Russian Roulette... with four rounds in the cylinder. The chat rooms talk about buying silver and gold when they decline in price. "If silver goes down to 22, Im all in!" "When these excessive premiums drop a few dollars, Im backing up the truck." 1) Emotion and Sentiment Believe it or not, buying on a price drop goes against human nature. It is a bit strange, because if you go to the store a...

During the 1970s, the U.S. experienced a decade of below-trend economic growth combined with rising interest rates – and eventually – massively higher gold and silver prices. Some sectors boomed while others lagged, and then as now, the majority of the population struggled with rising home and commodity prices, bookmarked by lofty interest rates. This stilted and challenging environment, which came to be called  stagflation, eventually drove the more perceptive people into gold and ...

Palladium was manipulated for years. It had the largest short position relative to its size, while physical demand rose inversely to decreasing supply. In 2018, demand became so large that it overwhelmed the shorts. Physical palladium could not meet the markets needs and prices exploded. Shorts eventually decreased their positions until they got to a more sustainable level. For many years, the platinum/palladium ratio, shown on proprietary charts, averaged 2.4 to 1 in favor of platinum, st...

Anyone who owns precious metals, mining shares or metals ETFs knows the drill. First, gold and silver begin to establish an uptrend on the charts. Analysts (like us) start writing about how prices are getting ready to make an upside run. Then "out of nowhere" thousands of highly margined futures contracts hit the market on the short side, "re-painting" the charts, sending terror into the hearts of stackers and those who believe in "honest money." The reality is that honest money is being ...

History is full of intriguing sayings coming down to us from other cultures that inform our thinking and behavior. "Managing a large state is like cooking a small fish." – Lao Tzu. "A stitch in time saves nine." – A 1700s sewing reference. "Healing is a matter of time; sometimes a matter of opportunity." – Hippocrates. One I especially like tracks back to Julius Caesar after ending his governance of the Roman province of Gaul and being ordered to disband his army. Under no circ...