Years ago when I was National Field Service Director for the largest multi-line Insurance Co in the US, one of my main presentations to various General Agencies and their sales force was NEVER BASH YOUR COMPETITION; Sell your own product. If you bash your competition your client will begin wondering why you find it necessary to badmouth your competition and they might decide they better take a look at that competition before they buy.
We see this happening all the time in politics too. Bash your competition to try to make them look bad instead of talking up your own strengths to make yourself look good.
Obviously this is why gold and silver are being bad mouthed. “They” have nothing good they can say about what they are trying to sell, like the future of their countries, currencies, economies etc. so they are trying to dissuade us all from owning the only thing that has always proven to be a safe haven in the long run for the past 5000 years. I’d say hold your …….Silverngold