Loading ...I think you’re right. It’ll be Darwinesque!
Stupidity and irrational thinking only get you so far. The globalists are causing a lot of trouble in the world!
ipso facto @ 9:31
No worries … those idiots are on their last legs … NATO and the UN too.
A bunch of fat old idiots.
Chuckle
Maddog @ 10:49
Looks safe to me. 
In Response
Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
This week, the UN is attempting to pass the first global carbon tax , which will increase energy, food, and fuel costs across the world. We will not allow the UN to tax American citizens and companies.
Under the leadership of
@POTUS
, the U.S. will be a hard NO. We call on other nations to stand alongside the United States in defense of our citizens and sovereignty.
@IMOHQ
Will Trump be able to deep 6 this? I can’t imagine our country paying this tax.
Wall Street Mav
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The United Nations plans to impose “Net Zero” carbon taxes on global shipping will raise $12 billion per year for a “green projects” slush fund.
UN bureaucrats will be able to spend the money however they want.
We went to war with England over taxation without representation.
and here we come…
Silver up $.11 now as platinum and palladium soar.
I’m looking forward to that gold revaluation at $40K. Hope real estate doesn’t go up with it. 🙂
Lunacy in Hamburg
Climate Lunatics In Germany Want Total Deindustrialization In Just 15 Years
Consider just some of the consequences:
All gas and oil heating systems in every last building in Hamburg will have to be changed out in the coming years.
The cost to landlords will be reckoned in the billions.
Hamburg’s entire natural gas network, constructed over generations and extending to nearly 8,000 kilometers, will soon have to be decommissioned entirely.
The city will probably have to impose on all of its streets a strict speed limit of 30 kph (19 mph) and take drastic steps to reduce traffic.
Municipal industries must transition from petroleum coke and gas entirely to hydrogen and e-fuels, although there is hardly a market for either of these alternatives or even the hope of one.
If this law is not reversed, Hamburg will become a wasteland.
First industry will leave, and then all the people will.
Mario and Lynette are laying it down …
… so you can pick it up … and put it into action … so get on it brothers and sisters … thank you Robin Williams.
Pay with cash whenever you can .., trade fiat for precious metals and real assets whenever possible … and get off the internet every which way you can … thank you Clint Eastwood.
Where is the demand for physical gold and silver in England coming from right now? Is it from a public that finally sees their privacy and financial security being stripped away from them in real time by their authoritarian government.
America is waking up to this evidenced in the rise of sound money initiatives, but we need more – faster – now, before it’s too late for you.
Spread the word
No numbers that I can see
Looks like they are on hold because of the shutdown. Nevertheless, they lobbed a grenade in silver’s direction that we are now recovering from.
The silver shares tell the story, they hardly budged when silver came down.
The dollar is starting to slide again. It appears the 200 dma has rejected its attempt to bust out.
ferret – a while back you mentioned the AUD
and that on that particular day it was up against the dollar.
It brought me some memories of a stock I used to watch/own, it’s actually an income fund. The symbol is FAX.
It holds government and corporate bonds in Asia, but mostly Australian assets if I remember correctly. The idea behind it (if I remember right), was that as the AUD strengthened the share price would rise.
Back then, which was 25 years ago, it was trading around $5 and paid a 6% dividend.
I just looked at it. It is currently trading at $15.55 but paying a 7.1% dividend. The divi is good because it is paid monthly. The obvious risk is a currency default. I suspect that if the dollar blows up, it will take all western currencies with it. I might grab some, if the AUD proceeds to strengthen against the dollar, the share price will go up. Seems like a pretty good bet to me at the moment considering where the AUD sits right now.
Silver
Was in a coin shop ystdy…they said, demand for all metals is good, but also plenty of supply, they are just very busy….no signs of a shortage and I asked specifically about silver….no they said they can get all the silver they want….we are talking small bars etc. They are basically selling all Au and Ag that comes in….but some to new buyers….
That said the diff between london and Crimex is real…which says London has a problem, as Crimex Oct settled at 51.07 where spot was 53.05
https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/metals/precious/silver.settlements.html
Would it be too fanciful to imagine that the industry is letting enough metal out to keep punters happy, but can’t hide the problem for orders of serious vol.
As for the Perth Mint, they were caught out, not having the metal in non allocated accounts, but still charging the interest…as were I think Wells Fargo and probably every bank that operated a non – allocated account scheme, though they weren’t caught….
Here we come again
Silver has been down all night and now it’s turned up. Gold has been up for the most part but gaining steam now. It’s been a solid anchor.
PM shares looking strong again too. NEM leading the charge and heading to $100.
Dollar down a smidge. 10 yr down a bip at 4.02%. Bitcoin up 1/2%. Oil up around 1%. SM looks to open up as well.
The PPI is set to come out at 0830 EST – although I’m not sure it will with the gov’t shutdown.
If the PPI is out of whack to the hot side, we’ll probably feel it. For now, it’s onward and upward. 🙂
Bob – thanks
Makes a lot of sense. If they can’t get it out fast enough anyway, why bother with the grade that takes even longer to get out the door?
Says a lot about demand. Eventually they’ll take the lower grade stuff when supply catches up.
Bob
I wondered if calls for delivery by paper traders who sold what they didn’t have to draw down the price had anything to do with the pressure to make more although I didn’t put it that way and yes it is having a effect combined with a plethora of other things. Declining grade. Peak silver?
. Delivery calls deplete physical inventory
- Futures market pressure: A call for delivery occurs when a trader on a futures exchange, such as the COMEX, demands physical metal instead of cash to settle their contract.
- Inventory drawdown: While some claims of exploding delivery volumes have been fact-checked and found to be exaggerated, physical silver delivery demand has been consistently high, putting pressure on existing inventories. As traders take physical possession, the pool of silver available in major vaults shrinks.
2. Supply deficit creates market stress
- Multi-year imbalance: Global silver demand has outstripped supply for several consecutive years, consuming existing surpluses.
- Mining limitations: The structural deficit persists because roughly 70% of silver is a byproduct of mining other metals, like copper and lead. This makes it difficult for producers to increase output quickly in response to higher silver prices.
- Declining grades: Compounding the issue are declining ore grades at existing mines, which require more ore processing for the same amount of silver output
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. Investment demand surges amid uncertainty
- Safe-haven appeal: During periods of economic uncertainty, inflation, and geopolitical tension, investors flock to precious metals like silver as a safe haven.
- Increased physical buying: Investment demand for physical silver, particularly bars and coins, has been exceptionally strong. Analysts project that investment demand will rise sharply and push prices to record levels.
- silver-backed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) has increased dramatically, forcing custodians to buy more physical silver to back new subscriptions.
4. Industrial demand remains robust
- Green energy transition: Unlike gold, over 50% of silver’s annual demand is for industrial uses. It is a critical component in green technologies, such as solar panels and electric vehicle batteries.
- 5G and electronics: The expansion of 5G infrastructure and demand for modern electronics further drives silver consumption, as it is a crucial electrical conductor.
- Relatively inelastic: Industrial demand for silver is relatively inelastic in the short term, meaning manufacturers will continue buying even at higher prices to avoid production disruptions.
5. Higher premiums reflect tightness in physical supply
- Premiums for bars and coins: The scarcity of physical silver has caused premiums—the amount over the spot price—to rise for bars and coins.
- Geographic price divergence: Tightness in the physical market has caused prices to diverge geographically. For example, traders have been air-freighting silver from Western vaults to Asian markets, where premiums are even higher.
Ultimately, these factors all contribute to the need for refiners and mints to make more silver bars and coins to meet both investment and delivery demands
Maya
I need to make a correction to treefrog when I started radiation I read somewhere but it’s not a issue. Only when they actually had radiation coffee once claim it was healthy back in time. Your going to be disappointed to find out the trees absorb the cadmium.
I checked to see if Hawaii if it was the same. Apparently the cacao trees absorb it. Then when processing using the sun outside lead from soil and dust can drop on the beans apparent sticky surface. That part may be prevented. Some foods can pull these metals out. Oats is one of them. Milk chocolate is safer.
lead and cadmium are the heavy metals most commonly found in chocolate beans, including those grown in Hawaii. Cadmium is absorbed from the soil by the cocoa plant, while lead can be deposited on the beans from dust and soil after harvest during the drying process. Other heavy metals like arsenic, nickel, and chromium can also be present.
I wrote this after having a cup of mocha coffee.
Silver Bullet and Buygold
Found online:
Many (U.S.-based) silver refiners and smelters are not accepting lower silver content coins such as 90% “junk silver” or sterling for refining, or have severely restricted these categories. This policy shift emerged in October 2025 in response to extreme demand for physical silver, which overwhelmed refinery capacity and forced processors to prioritize higher purity metals like .999 fine and .9999 fine bars and sovereign bullion coins. Refining lower-purity silver is more labor-intensive and costly, so refiners are cutting back on these less profitable categories.
Refining lower purity metals requires more resources and energy, which is untenable when backlogs are severe and rapid delivery of high-purity silver is prioritized.
Silver Bullet
I thought the same thing. First the refiners, then the Perth Mint and India, that will trickle down to coin shops.
I can see it in the prices the locals will pay for silver, even .999 which the refiners are still taking. Everything except eagles they pay well under spot.
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Probably why the big banks never cover their shorts, they figure they have other ways to control the market. Hard to say when/if the general public will ever become net buyers.
The miners should take supply off the market to support the higher prices like Neumeyer has done at First Majestic, but they never have before.
A little quieter tonight. PPI’s scheduled to come out in the morning. Don’t know if they will because of the gov’t shutdown. Hotter numbers might bring out the sellers. We’ll see.
goldielocks @ 4:14 – My clean Cocoa
Grown in my back yard, which is a substrate of volcanic lava, with a thin mantle of organic material from chipped up trees and vines from this property over 30 years old. No industrial waste or activity here. No heavy metals. Some cacao farms here do well in crushed lava gravel with a thin layer of decomposing organics only a few inches thick.
Silver bullet
Really, that might be a good buying op on the other side for buyers. I don’t have too much of those till that last few years for barter coins and barter gifts except key dates. Just in case wouldn’t want to buy bread or eggs with a silver eagle. If people need to sell them that’s a shame to sell them too low but they might be able to sell them on line on eBay or even Amazon because they’re being bought. When selling cools down it will probably pick back up for dealers. If I have a minute I’ll see if they’re buying them around here and for how much.