My sister in law, widowed but working. . I sent her some money awhile back to invest in PMs so if it turned against her it would t be her money. I had a feeling if I sent money instead of the phyzz she would never buy it. They don’t have bullion shops near by in the country. The close one I could see and called them only night it but didn’t sell it and that was near 4 hr drive. Maybe a pot belly stove for those cold winters and can cook on them. She  decided to put it in very short term treasuries and buy it later. I don’t think she understands that small interest won’t keep up with inflation and what she can buy with it later. At least she will have cash on hand to liquidate if needed. If worse comes to worse if I’m still around I’ll have to send her some barter coins. She has Amish farmers, they’re totally independent and skilled to live totally off the grid around her that will watch out for her if she runs into trouble like when tornado winds blew her barn apart. They rounded up her horses, kept them for her and cleared the debree for her. Shes independent but can’t build or farm food in mass for the horses like my brother. She should give them up to the Amish who would take good care of them. Get some egg laying chickens instead but my brother has a business she’s working alone at now too. But the problem I worry about it’s in real estate. My brother knew how to switch business to what’s needed but no longer there. So far okay as people moving away from city’s.

Silver’s being a bad boy!

$200 just down the road …

KOW

Chaos!

That silver didn’t reverse lower after it hit $100? I am. That’s not normal market action for pm’s. 🤔

OTOH, my stock account is flat after a 11% up day yesterday. Them’s the breaks I guess. Good thing my phyzz outweighs my shares. 😅

So what are they gonna do now that they don’t get paid to rob the citizens, rob them for free?

Good question! I think inflation there is already a zillion percent.

With they’re leaders leaving with the gold who’s going to pay their regime?

… is outweighing all other factors at the moment … how long can this continue? … will the West join the party? …

Silver Tops $100 As Chinese Demand Is Literally ‘Off The Charts’ | ZeroHedge

… will industrial demand continue strong at these prices? … can monetary demand replace softness in industrial demand … will silver enjoy Giffen Good demand once it moves above $100 (idiot Westerners love to pay up for things) …  curios minds want to know.

Head scratch … raised eyebrows … chuckle

The majority of ultra-high-net-worth investors have mostly missed out, survey data shows, with family offices reporting an average allocation to precious metals of just 2% last year, according to the UBS Global Family Office Report 2025. 

However, bold bets from a few tycoons including Sprott and Hong Kong-based investor Cheah Cheng Hye have reaped massive return

Well they finally did it. Reduced certain vulnerable perhaps low IQ because they they don’t even know what their protestin to third world status in the name of equality. Equally on the extinction list. While everyone is trying to climb up the socioeconomic latter they’re climbing down. Letting in illegals they can  think they have status, playing they just want a better life scam , where’s  the welfare office, there not at the bottom.  Here’s someone worse off than they are and they’re going to save them. Did you ever see those videos where someone asked if they could take in Abdullah so and so into their home and before they were asked said they would and then these ” pretend illegals ” stepped forward and they declined or made excuses. Just paid protestors.

I’d like to see their interpretation of

legitimacy, authority, and governing capacity.

Yet, as we noted earlier in the week, despite record highs prices, Goldman’s commodity trading desk notes that spec positioning in New York and Shanghai remains close to the lows.

Perhaps with the understatement of the week, Goldman’s Delta-One desk-head Rick Privorotsky noted earlier that gold and silver remain in an aggressive uptrend.

The broader signal still looks like reserve diversification rather than pure risk hedging.

There is clearly hot money involved, but first and foremost gold is a central bank trade… a slow erosion of the dollar’s exorbitant privilege rather than a sudden loss of confidence.

If there was one chart that summed up the craziness in the silver market it is this… the premium being paid for silver in Shanghai over silver in the West…

‘Off the charts’…

GoldSilver HQ
@GoldSilverHQ
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Jan 20
Gold-silver price ratio: 50:1

Gold-silver inventory ratio:

Comex: 1:12
LBMA: 1:3

https://x.com/i/status/2013577496524972441

You are very correct about Comex Gold and Silver … the bankers are digging in here in an effort to keep silver under $100 and gold under $5,000 … with Open Interest (OI) in both exploding upward.

Metals Daily Exchange Volume & Open Interest – CME Group

Usually this signals a top is approaching … and seasonals would support such an outcome … but these are not normal times.

The wrong news comes out and we could see a commercial squeeze this time.

Not to mention OI in both gold and silver are nowhere near historically significant levels.

Yippie yi yo ki yay … chuckle

“taking stuff out”

LOL 🙂 That’s a great thought. Very optimistic! I hope you are right!

Yeah war with Iran is a big can of worms. Seems like the mullahs are going to fall without our help. On the other hand it seems like they have weathered this storm. I dunno

Oil has been pretty well behaved lately. If the straits are closed by Iran then that would surprise everyone!

Who does that? I guess it’s better than popping at the open only to be sold down all day like we saw for the better part of 20 years.

Still, it makes absolutely no sense that anyone would be selling shares with the metals rocking at the open. Approved scum stocks like RIO and BHP don’t sell off like that.

Re China Iran

They might be taking stuff out….loads of flights have gone to Moscow, taking stuff out as they abandon the joint…..

I would be astounded if China was to step up, considering the state of the population…..if they don’t overthrow the regime, the population will down tools and it will become a 3 rd world shiitehole.

That’s interesting. I wonder if that’s why oil is up over $1.50 and back above $60.

I really hope Trump doesn’t intend to start a war with Iran. I hope this is a test to see how China would respond. Now they know.

…. and your tax dollars are paying for all of it … these NGO’s get their money from DC … Daddy Commie …

The color-revolution risk assessment we delivered to readers in August 2025 has since seen a timeline that has been accelerated, with Democratic Party-aligned dark-money funded NGOs, left-wing militant groups, and anti-Trump labor unions leveraging Minneapolis as a testbed for coordinated socialist resistance activity, including strike actions, boycotts, and engineered social unrest, all aimed at undermining President Trump’s legitimacy, authority, and governing capacity, with the end goal of regime change at the White House.

The assessment initially forecasted that selective resistance movements would begin to materialize in 2026, with mass resistance emerging in 2027-28 ahead of the presidential election. That timeline has since accelerated, as Marxist NGOs and unions are funneling personnel and resources into Minneapolis to fuel social unrest, with the hopes of impeding the federal government’s deportation operations targeting criminal illegal aliens. Remember, these illegals are either the Democratic Party’s current voting bloc or future voting bloc.

The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
Liquidity in Japan’s government bond market is collapsing:

The JGB Liquidity Index jumped to 9.5 points on Tuesday, indicating the worst liquidity conditions on record.

This index has DOUBLED over the last 12 months.

Conditions in the $7.6 trillion bond market have deteriorated materially since 2022, as bond yields have experienced one of the most dramatic increases in history.

This comes as the Bank of Japan has significantly reduced its bond purchases, while Japanese life insurers have sold a record amount.

Meanwhile, foreign investors now reflect ~65% of monthly cash bond transactions, up from just 12% in 2009.

These investors have much shorter holding periods than traditional domestic buyers, increasing volatility.

Japan’s bond market is on the edge of a full-blown liquidity crisis.

https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2014404948667334780