Foreign. You’re watching Silver News Daily. Subscribe for more. But that currency reset is still out there. There’s no real way to avoid us having to do something with the global monetary system. But as bold as Trump has been lately, it wouldn’t be that big of a surprise for him to just get up one day and say, all right, time for a gold standard or something, you know, some other kind of monetary system that, that is sustainable. Trump’s first term, in retrospect, based on what we’re seeing now, his first term was very uneventful. You know, really not that much happened other, other than he named three Supreme Court justices, which is very consequential.

But beyond that, he, he was hamstrung first time around, hamstrung by the fact that he didn’t know anything about government. And he basically just named a bunch of swamp creatures to run his departments and advise him. And they basically told him just business as usual. And he was hamstrung by, also by the Trump Russia collusion hoax, which tied him up in, in the, effectively tied him up in court for the first couple of years of his administration. And then the pandemic hit, you know, so he, he really never had an actual Trump term. And then when he got voted out of office, he had four years to think about what he would have done and to talk to people and get advice and everything.

And so he has totally hit the ground running this time around. And now, you know, as, as we’re talking, he’s over in the Middle east just doing deals with everybody in sight. And, and they’re falling in love with him over there because he’s, he just did a speech where he said, listen, you guys are, I’ll grossly paraphrase here. He says, you guys are doing fine on your own. And the nation builders and the neocons in the west should have never been involved with you. You know, we never should have messed with you the way we did.

We should have let you chart your own course. And now you’re doing that and look how great everything is. And, and so they loved hearing that. So he’s doing massive deals, close to trillion dollar deals with Saudi Arabia and uae. And, and he’s, he’s talking about doing deals with Iran, which avoid the whole World War III scenario in the Middle East. So this is, this is all really encouraging stuff. And it’s fun to see this guy who, who just loves doing stuff like this, going around and cutting big deals with people, actually get to do what makes him happy at the Same time, he’s helping the world.

So far, you know, any, anything could happen going forward, but so far, so good with Trump. He’s, he’s accomplishing a lot of stuff and in a very short amount of time. And, you know, most of what he’s getting done is by and large, good. The border is closed and RFK Jr is doing a lot of really interesting things with the, the public health system. Trump’s doing a lot of geopolitical things that are, you know, so far very encouraging. So, you know, I give him an A minus right now. And the, the, the minus is because there’s a lot of chaos that’s gone along with the things he’s done.

Right. But the things that he so far have been very important and very consequential. The financial world is standing on the edge of a blade, and silver is the spark that could ignite it all. Behind the polished speeches and the manipulated statistics, something much more dangerous is brewing. A global monetary reset that could shatter the current financial order. And while most eyes are fixated on stocks, crypto, or even gold, silver is being quietly drained from vaults, bought up in secret and locked away by those who know what’s coming. But here’s the shocking part. This isn’t just speculation.

The numbers, the charts, the insider moves, they all point to one. Physical silver is vanishing, and the pressure building beneath the surface is about to blow. Central banks are hoarding gold like it’s the end of the world. Nations are ditching the dollar in broad daylight, and trillions in global debt are hanging by a thread. Now imagine what happens when confidence breaks, when paper promises fail, and when real money is the only thing left standing. That’s when silver makes its move. Not a small uptick, not a quiet rally, a full blown eruption. A move so violent, so undeniable, that 1000 silver won’t just be a headline.

It’s c new normal. And the most chilling part, by the time the average investor wakes up, it will already be too late. So how did we get here? And why is silver and the most overlooked asset in the world, about to become the most explosive? Stick around, because once you see the whole picture, you’ll understand exactly why this reset isn’t coming. It’s already begun. Well, you know, there’s a couple of big currents out there and they’re kind of cross currents, they’re pointing in different directions because on the one hand, you know, we already baked a financial crisis into the cake by borrowing insane amounts of money over the last 30 or 40 years.

So there’s no way we get pain free from here to healthy organic growth that’s sustainable going forward. There has to be a lot of pain. There have to be financial crises just because of all this debt. So that’s there. And then the tariff thing was really chaotic at first, but it looks like countries are lining up to do a basic framework deal where everybody cuts their tariffs down to some low level and then they negotiate away a lot of the non tariffs of trade barriers that exist right now. So we end up with an almost free trade world, it looks like, because Trump is willing to go nuclear from the point of view of trade policy.

And countries are seeing doing a deal with Trump as the lesser of two evils right now because the US is the world’s biggest market. So Trump has massive leverage when it comes to a trade war with basically anybody. So the deals seem like they’re about to start getting done. There was one with the UK just lately here and China and the us at least the US is saying that they’re making progress and they can see the outline of a deal in the not too distant future. So when stuff like that starts happening, that’s a stabilizer for the global economy if we get past these trade wars and enter a time when our trade relationships are mostly understandable and not too brutal for anybody.

So trade is a doable thing. That’s good. And so that, leaving aside the big financial crisis that’s coming that we can’t avoid, we’re making progress on the geopolitical trade side. So I don’t know which of those things dominates in the year ahead. It could be that interest rates on everybody’s debt, they’re high enough now to cause debt service costs to be debilitating going forward. Like the US for decades, the global economy has clung to a fragile illusion that fiat currencies backed by nothing but trust could sustain an ever growing mountain of debt. But that illusion is cracking.

All across the financial world, whispers of a coming currency reset are getting louder. We’ve been here before. The Bretton woods system held the post war world together until 1971, when Nixon pulled the plug on the gold standard. Since then, governments have printed money with reckless abandon, fueling bubbles, inequality and economic instability. Now, with the US national debt pushing $33 trillion and interest payments alone passing $1 trillion a year, the math no longer works. The system is eating itself and confidence is the last pillar holding it up. Calls for a new monetary system are growing from every corner.

From gold standard advocates like Jim Rickards to political voices speculating that a future Trump administration could make a dramatic announcement. But the real momentum is coming from outside the West. BRICS nations, China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa are accumulating gold at breakneck speed, openly discussing alternatives to the dollar and laying the groundwork for a gold backed trade settlement system. These aren’t fringe moves. These are foundational shifts in the architecture of global finance. And what’s silver’s role in all of this? Quiet, overlooked, but essential. If gold becomes the new anchor, silver, with its history as currency and its limited above ground supply, becomes the lever when the reset begins.

The scramble won’t be for digital tokens or paper claims. It will be for what’s real. And silver, suppressed for years, will finally be unleashed as nations, institutions and individuals race to secure anything tangible. This isn’t a prediction. It’s the logical consequence of a system that’s run out of road. You really would have thought $3,000 an ounce would have been resistance, right? Because that’s such a big round number that you would have expected a lot of sell orders to cluster right there and that every time the price touched 3, $3,000 an ounce, those sellers would have kicked in and knocked it back down and we would have had like two years of bouncing off 3,000 before we broke through.

Didn’t happen. We blew right through it. And part of that is probably because there’s some non price sensitive buyers out there. The world’s central banks, whether it’s the BRICS for their future gold backed currency, or banks in general because of the Basel III regulations coming in, where gold is now a tier one asset. So banks need to own gold. And so I think they were just buying without a lot of price sensitivity. Then we finally got to 3400 or so and that turned out to be a place where there was a lot of resistance. A lot of selling came in at that point and gold fell by a couple of hundred dollars an ounce.

It’s up again today. But it’s, you know, wouldn’t be a surprise at all for consolidation to happen here. Just technically, you know, not, not looking at the rest of the, the unprecedented things that are going on in the world when something has a nice run like this, creates a lot of profits that people can take and so they protect their gains by selling a little bit and everything. And that causes a choppy market for a while. And it wouldn’t be a surprise if that was the case for gold, where we go the rest of the year bouncing between $3,000 and $3,400 and you know what, that would be fine for the mining industry because $3,000 an ounce gold is super profitable for the big well run miners.

And if that’s the way it works out, then you definitely want to be owning the mining stocks because they’re going to be reporting another couple of quarters of phenomenally good cash flow and earnings and revenue and everything. And probably they’ll be attracting generalist money because of that. So you know, a choppy gold market would be just fine for now. The scary part for precious metals investing is that we get a serious correction. The dollar’s dominance is eroding. And nowhere is that clearer than in the growing defiance of the BRICS nations. For years, countries like China, Russia and India have quietly been dumping U.S.

treasuries and loading up on gold. In 2024 alone, China’s official gold reserves surpassed 2,200 tons. And that’s just what they admit. Russia, crippled by sanctions, has shifted almost entirely to gold and commodity backed trade, abandoning dollar transactions wherever possible. This isn’t theory, this is a coordinated de dollarization campaign playing out in real time. And now, with new BRICS members joining the pact, including key Gulf states, the idea of a gold backed currency isn’t just a fantasy, it’s a threat to the entire Western financial order. At recent summits there’s been open talk of using a gold linked digital settlement system, bypassing swift and choking off the dollar’s power to sanction and manipulate global trade.

If this gains traction, the implications are seismic. The dollar loses its privilege, central banks lose their grip and physical assets, and especially precious metals regain their rightful place at the top of the monetary pyramid. But here’s where silver enters the equation as gold becomes the foundation of these new financial architectures. Silver is the wild card. A monetary metal with massive upside and far less available supply. While gold is being hoarded by central banks, silver is being consumed at an industrial level. That means less silver is available for monetary use. And when the world turns its attention to this imbalance, the repricing will be swift and brutal.

Investors focused solely on gold are missing the asymmetric play. Silver isn’t just a hedgehog, it’s a powder keg waiting for a match. And the BRICS alliance might be the hand holding the lighter. We’re on a trillion five right of interest on the government stand alone, let alone student loans and credit cards, et cetera, et cetera. And that’s all recessionary. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if we still do have a recession in the second half of this year. But you know, that’s normal. Recessions are normal. And if we can keep it from metastasizing into something much bigger that necessitates that currency reset, then things won’t seem historically crazy.

It’ll be stuff that is familiar to everybody. But that currency reset is still out there. There’s no real way to avoid us having to do something with the global monetary system. But as bold as Trump has been lately, it wouldn’t be that big of a surprise for him to just get up one and say, all right, time for a gold standard or something, you know, some other kind of monetary system that, that is sustainable going forward. So it, it could be that the way all these other things are happening kind of on Internet time right now, where we, we do things that used to take years and weeks, maybe the currency reset happens in the same way.

We’ll have to see. Anyhow, I’m throwing out a lot of possibilities here and the, the reason for that is that there’s no way to know how this plays out in the short run, because all of this stuff is in one sense, historically unprecedented. And in another sense, it’s not clear whether it’s deflationary or inflationary. You know, tariffs, they raise the price of things in the short run, but if they slow down economic activity, then, you know, that’s deflationary. We can’t know how all this stuff plays out. So, you know, what I’m doing with my own money is just focusing on the stuff that’s baked in the cake.

We got to have a financial crisis. The big currencies of the have to be inflated away in order to prevent something much more serious in the moment from happening. And so that’s got to happen. So invest for something like that, which is say gold and silver and other related equities that tend to do well in an inflationary period, and then just recognize that the rest of this stuff is just unpredictable. We can’t say how it’s going to go, certainly not in the short run. And don’t place big bets on one side or another of a lot of the non monetary crisis possibilities out there, because they are inherently unpredictable.

Every empire falls when its debts come due. And today the global economy is staring down a wall of IOUs it can never repay. The US alone is sinking under the weight of $33 trillion in debt, with annual interest payments projected to eclipse $1.7 trillion within just a few years. That’s more than the defense budget, more than Social Security. And the terrifying part, the only Way to service this debt is to borrow more. This is the classic definition of a debt spiral, a vortex from which there is no escape without either default or devaluation. But America’s not alone.

The IMF reports that global debt hit $305 trillion in 2023. That’s three times global GDP. And now, as interest rates remain high to fight inflation, those debts are no longer cheap. Countries, corporations and consumers are being crushed under their own obligations. Governments can’t cut spending without collapsing their economies. And they can’t print more money without unleashing inflation. The game is broken. And when the music stops, the flight to hard assets will become a stampede. This is where silver moves from sideshow to centerpiece. Gold may be the traditional safe haven, but silver offers something gold, scarcity and utility.

When panic hits and investors scramble for protection, Silver’s lower price point and broader accessibility make is it the obvious choice for the masses. But the twist, there won’t be enough to go around. Years of underinvestment in silver mining coupled with rising industrial demand mean the shelves are already bare. And once silver starts running, it won’t be a controlled climb. It will be an unrelenting surgeon, the kind that turns shortfalls into systemic crises. Silver’s explosive potential isn’t just about value. It’s about what happens when the world realizes that paper promises are worthless and the only thing that matters is what you can hold in your hand, which, you know, in bull markets you get those.

So in a normal bull market you can see gold to go down to $2,500 an ounce and still be in a healthy bull market. And if that happens, then that, that’ll be painful for a lot of people and you know, a lot of investors in mining stocks and a lot of stackers. But you know, we shall keep in mind that bull markets have corrections that shake out the weak hands. And in, in gold’s case and, and also silver’s case, the long term trends are really positive because we’re screwing up the big currencies of the world and we can’t do anything to fix that in the short run.

So that means declining currency values, rising inflation probably, and that’s a good environment for precious metals. So even if there’s a big correction in the short run. Oh, and another thing that could cause a precious metals correction is an equities bear market and a recession, which those things are possible too. Equities are wildly overvalued. We haven’t had a real recession since 2008 or 2009. So it’s time just in the normal course of events for us to have a couple of years in which the global economy shrinks and equities enter a bear market that could pull down gold and silver too.

So there are reasons for caution in precious metals short term and maybe intermediate term. But in the long run, this is still a bull market that has a lot further to run. So you know, buy the dip is a very reasonable approach to precious metals. When you, when you’re thinking maybe the, the end point of this process is $10,000 an ounce gold, then you know, a drop from 3000 to 2700 is a signal for you to just buy a little more. You know, keep dollar cost averaging in both physical gold and silver and in the best miners, the miners that you want to hold for the long haul.

And then don’t really stress too much about all of this stuff because so much of what’s going on is unknown. But one thing that is reasonably knowable is that we’re screwing up the world’s currencies and that’s great for precious metals. Just before we get going, we just launched the official Silver news Daily telegram. To kick things off, we’re running a 10 ounce silver giveaway. Yes, real physical silver, not a voucher, not digital credits, actual bullion. This telegram will be our new home for real time silver discussions, market insights, collection picks and everything. Precious metals, it’s where the community truly comes alive.

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They raise their dividends, they buy back their own stock, they pay off debt and then they go out and make accretive acquisitions. They, they buy other companies that can help them in some way. And if you’re a big miner, chances are in this kind of an environment you’re, you’re producing more than you’re finding. In other words, your, your reserves are shrinking over time. So you need to go out and buy some reserves by Acquiring companies that have already found enough gold and silver in the ground to move the needle for you. So M and A mergers and acquisition activity starts to ramp up and we’re seeing that now.

We’re in the, a fairly early stage of this process. But just lately Pan American Silver bought Mag Silver for a couple of billion dollars, which is a nice bold on kind of acquisition there. You know, Pan American gains a big high quality mine and presumably their cash flow goes up more than enough to pay off that 2 billion purchase price. And you know, at the other end of the spectrum, I’m not sure what this means, but Dolly Varden, which is a, a promising exploration company, not even a producer yet, they, they have property next to Hecla’s property in the Golden Triangle in British Columbia.

And the thinking was that Hecla would come in and buy them out at some point and make a district scale mine out of all of that land. But instead Dolly Varden bought out Hecla and they’ve bought a couple of other properties in basically the same period of time. So what, what they’re going for is district scale, but they’ doing it by rolling up other properties, you know, starting small and getting big by acquiring other properties. So that’s interesting too. You know, that’s unexpected. I thought Dolly Varden would be a, a takeout candidate this year sometime, but instead they’re, they’re, they’re kind of the acquirer now in a lot of cases.

And so we’ll see how that plays out. I think it means that they’re bigger and more valuable, but it’s going to take longer to, to explore the massive land package they have before they come out with a resource. Gold has already broken the ceiling, quietly pushing past $3,000 and signaling the beginning of the next monetary era. But while the spotlight remains fixed on gold, silver is lying in wait. Historically the follower, but always with a vengeance. In every major monetary upheaval, silver has been late to the party, but always the wildest guest. In 1980, gold’s surge was followed by silver exploding to nearly $50 an ounce.

In 2011, it happened again. Gold set the stage, and silver shot up by over 400%. Now in 2025, we’re watching the same play unfold, but the stakes are exponentially higher. Here’s the critical distinction. Gold is rising because central banks are panicking. But silver is still lagging because the broader market is asleep. That’s the setup for an asymmetric move. When silver plays catch up, it doesn’t move gradually. It Slingshots. And the gap right now is staggering. The gold to silver ratio is hovering near 81, far above historical norms. Every time this ratio corrects, silver doesn’t just rise, it erupts.

But this time it’s not just about history or ratios. The suppression of silver prices by paper markets, the lack of investment flows and years of physical neglect have created a spring loaded scenario. And unlike gold, silver has another explosive catalyst, a physical shortage that’s already underway. While gold is being stockpiled, silver is being consumed, depleted, withdrawn from vaults. It’s the perfect storm, a monetary awakening that will send capital rushing towards silver just as the supply vanishes. And when that moment hits, price targets like $50, $100 or even $200 will be obsolete. The only thing that will matter is whether you already hold it, or if you’re caught on the outside looking in, that defines just how big and how valuable they are.

So I think the timeframe got longer, but the upside got higher with those guys. So anyhow, stuff like that is happening in the mining industry now. And that means that as an investor you’ve got interesting choices because the big guys are reporting really nice quarterly earnings. The fourth quarter and the first quarter so far have been big increases year over year. And there’s no reason to think the next couple of quarters won’t be the same way. And that’s going to attract generalist money. If you’re not a mining investor, but you hear good things about gold and silver and you go to your financial planner and say, give me some gold stocks or whatever, they’ll buy the big names.

And so those companies tend to go up first in this kind of a bull market. And the fact that they’re reporting really good quarterly comparisons helps a lot because that attracts a lot of generalist money. So you can buy those guys and then do quite well without a lot of risk, or you can go further down the food chain and look for those acquisition candidates like Mag Silver. Mag was bought out for 20% over the low of two weeks prior. So not a massive premium, but still a nice little pop, nice thing to have happen. And there are a lot of mags out there in the precious metal junior producer space that could be taken out in the same way.

So maybe you want to look for them. So there are a lot of interesting possibilities out there in this kind of a market. And I think the important thing is to be involved with high quality names. And then beyond that, just kind of do what feels comfortable. You know, if you’re not risk tolerant, go with the big guys. If you’re a speculator at heart, go with the little ones. But always, always look for quality. You want the best of breed or whatever you’re buying, and that limits your risk. And because, you know, especially with the smaller precious metals companies, most of them will never amount to anything.

They’ll just cease to exist at some point. So you want the 10% that are going to not just continue to exist, but grow dramatically, be taken out for massive premiums, whatever. So you gotta go for quality. And you’ve got to put the time and effort into being able to separate the wheat from the chaff in this space. Otherwise, just go with big ETFs or big miners and then let somebody else do the legwork and the analysis. The truth is hiding in plain sight. There isn’t enough physical silver to meet the coming demand. And the crunch is already here.

COMEX vaults are being drained, LBMA inventories are shrinking, and industrial users are quietly panicking. In 2024 alone, COMEX delivered a record 1200 tons of gold. But what most aren’t seeing is the silver bleed Beneath the surface. Physical deliveries are rising, while registered silver stockpiles are falling month after month. The silver that’s supposedly backing futures contracts, it’s vanishing. Vaults are emptying and refiners are reporting delays, shortages and premiums that no longer reflect the official price. And here’s where it gets Silver isn’t just a monetary metal. It’s a critical industrial commodity with thousands of commercial applications that can’t simply pause because the price spikes.

Solar panels, electric vehicles, 5G towers, medical devices. These sectors need silver now. They can’t wait for supply to catch up. So when investment demand floods in, triggered by monetary panic or geopolitical shocks, it won’t be a case of rising prices attracting more production. The physical metal simply isn’t there. Years of underinvestment in silver mining, environmental pushback and declining ore grades mean the industry can’t ramp up output fast enough to meet demand. We’re already in a structural deficit, confirmed by mining reports, analysts and industry insiders. But once the investment world catches on, that deficit becomes a crisis.

A rush for silver will force a reckoning. Contracts will default, premiums will spike, and the paper market will fracture. This isn’t theoretical. This is already in motion. And when the panic hits, $50 silver won’t even be on the radar. This market is heading for a price discovery event the likes of of which we’ve never seen. Yeah, AI that’s able to learn and grow and improve itself on its own, in other words, rewrite its code. With potentially unlimited growth. There’s no reason why something that’s as smart as a human and creative as a human can’t be a hundred times smarter than a human in two years and then a hundred times smarter than, you know, there’s no limit to theoretically to what we’re creating here.

So. But there is a point in the, presumably not too distant future when somebody develops AGI, artificial general intelligence, which is, you know, an, an AI that’s able to create and think and adapt to new situations and learn and grow. When somebody gets that, they potentially become the ruler of the world. Because in theory, an AGI can improve itself to the point where it can break any encryption, it can invade any bank account, it can, it can get into government databases, including the nuclear launch code side of the government’s database. You know, they can do pretty much anything they want, and there’s not anything anybody else can do to stop them.

So you really want somebody trustworthy to come up with that first. And, you know, there’s no way to know who’s going to come up with it first. And the idea of, let’s say China, for instance, coming up with it before the US does or somebody else in the west is very scary from the point of view of the democratic capitalist systems in the US and Europe and Asia. You know, you don’t want a potentially dangerous dictatorship to have that kind of power. But then, of course, you know, what would the US become if we had that kind of power? So we might be entering a phase of history where somebody gains game changing power via AGI and then uses that either for good or for ill.

And nobody’s in a position to really do much about that because we’re in an arms race right now. It’s not like we’re out there trying to control artificial intelligence. For a little while there was this idea that we would have restrictions on, on various aspects of the research and what, you know, what, what these things are capable of doing. But then we switch gears to basically an arms race where everybody’s trying to be first across that line. And that could make 2028 a very different year. You know, the things could happen that are, that are almost incomprehensible now and, and are uncontrollable where they, they happen because they’re happening and there’s not much we can do about it.

So the world could change in a really dramatic way that goes way beyond, you know, what kind of deal we cut with Iran or whether the Stock market goes up or down by, um, you know, whether we have the currency reset this year or five years from now. Those are all big things. Those are historically important things. But the emergence of sentient artificial intelligence would be orders magnitude bigger than that. And you know, I, I have absolutely no idea how that progresses and when it happens. But if it does happen, it’s basically bigger than anything that has ever happened in our lifetimes.

For years, a quiet revolution has been building beneath the surface of the financial system. And it all traces back to a single regulatory shift. Basel iii, this change implemented globally over the past few years, reclassified physical gold as a Tier one asset, placing it on par with cash and sovereign bonds for banking capital requirements. It may sound like an accounting tweak, but its implications are seismic. Suddenly, central banks and financial institutions had a new incentive to stockpile physical gold. Not paper contracts, not ETFs, but the real thing. And that demand surge is now playing out in full view, with gold prices smashing through resistance and vaults being cleared out at a historic pace.

But what does this mean for silver? Everything. While silver wasn’t formally included in Basel III’s Tier 1 classification, the ripple effect is undeniable. As physical gold becomes harder to obtain, and as the systemic risks of fiat exposure grow, attention inevitably shifts to the next best and far scarcer alternative, silver. Unlike gold, silver isn’t locked up in central bank vaults or held by sovereign wealth funds. Most of it is in circulation or consumed by industry. That makes it both more volatile and far more explosive when demand shifts. And here’s the twist. The same institutions that are buying gold under Basel III pressures are now quietly exploring silver allocations.

Not because of regulatory mandates, but because of market reality. Physical silver offers the same monetary protection with even greater upside. With the COMEX and LBMA already under stress, and with leasing arrangements becoming more opaque, the market’s confidence in paper metal is eroding fast. As gold tightens under Basel iii, silver becomes the pressure valve, the release point for pent up capital looking for real unencumbered assets. When that moment hits, it won’t be the gold market that catches fire. It’ll be silver. And the burn will be spectacular. Yeah, you are absolutely right that the, the way we should behave going forward is the way we should have always behaved.

But we didn’t have to because life was so cushy and everything. And you know, we, we really should be skill stacking. You know, we should be able to manage our lives without having to call in experts all the time. We should be, you Know, I have a series in substack called Health Prepping, based on the premise that, yeah, you can have all the gold and silver stacked if you want to, and, and everything else is taken care of, but if you’re not healthy, if you’re very sick, then none of those other things will save you and give you a good life.

So you’ve got to be healthy. And there are lots of ways to do that that the health establishment doesn’t tell us about. And, or it’s starting to, you know, Kennedy is starting to look into a lot of things that the, the people in charge for the past 30 or 40 years didn’t bother with because solving those problems would not be profitable for them. And you mentioned seed oils. Yeah, that. That’s. Those are a class of really highly processed oils that in the process of being processed, become really unhealthy, but it also makes them super cheap because.

So they become components in processed foods which make the processed foods profitable, but make the people who eat those foods unhealthy on a industrial scale. The US Is one of the most unhealthy societies that’s ever existed. And the reason for that is because the, you know, we’ve developed a system where the food companies make us sick by selling us poison, and then the pharmaceutical companies come in with expensive drugs to treat the symptoms of those chronic illnesses, and it just goes round and round until we get cancer towards the end, and they hit us with very expensive cancer treatments with it, don’t fix anything, and then we die, you know, and.

And they rack up hundreds of billions of dollars of profits throughout this process. And, you know, the information is out there. You can read up on seed oils and then just stop eating those things. Don’t eat anything that has, you know, sunflower oil in it because it’s probably been processed to the point where it’s dangerous. And. And there’s so many other things like that. Silver’s industrial side is the Trojan horse of this entire story. Quietly essential, structurally underappreciated, and now reaching a tipping point that the market is wildly unprepared for. While the financial world debates central banks and interest rates, silver is being consumed in record volumes by industries that can’t function without it.

And unlike other commodities, silver is irreplaceable. In its most critical applications. In solar panels, it’s the most conductive metal on Earth. In the electric vehicles, it’s embedded in every circuit in 5G infrastructure, in medical tech, in AI hardware, silver is everywhere. And none of these industries can slow down if anything, their demand is accelerating. Solar industry alone now eats up nearly 20% of global silver supply. And that number is expected to rise dramatically as governments double down on green energy mandates. Massive infrastructure bills in the U.S. europe and China are throwing billions into renewable energy. And behind every solar panel, a few grams of silver that can’t be swapped out.

Multiply that across millions of installations and you start to see the problem. The silver is, isn’t optional, it’s vital. And the same story plays out across electric vehicles, where silver demand is projected to grow by over 50% by the end of the decade. This isn’t speculative hype. These are locked in multi year trends with government backing, regulatory teeth, and global urgency. But here’s the danger. The investment world still treats silver like a sleepy monetary relic, ignoring the fact that its industrial demand is now competing directly with investors for the same dwindling supply. When the crowd finally wakes up and sees silver not just as a hedge, but as a vital commodity with explosive fundamentals, the scramble will be on.

Industrial users won’t back down. They’ll outbid, outpay, and outlast because they have no choice. And that’s when the market breaks. That’s when the price goes vertical. And that’s when silver stops being just a precious metal and becomes a global necessity, priced accordingly. Well, a good AI, a super powerful AI, could solve a lot of problems. And that, that would be what we would have to hope for. Elon Musk talks about this a lot that you, you, you need to design an AI with, with its own, instead of just letting it develop its own volition, you know, figure out what’s good for it and then go from there, you, you build that into it that human flourishing is the ultimate good.

And if it’s possible for that to be done and then, you know, a sentient AI emerges, but because of the way it was created, it wants to help us instead of just wipe us out because we’re consuming too many resources. Then all of a sudden you’d have, you know, kind of a benevolent God, which might be a really good thing. You know, I don’t know. We’re into the singularity part of the process now where it’s, it’s really impossible to predict the future based on anything we’ve ever learned in our lifetimes. But yeah, it’s possible that AI is a positive force in the world and solves a lot of our problems and you know, the, the solving the financial problem because we’ve borrowed too much money.

I’m not sure how you use artificial intelligence to make the math work because you being very smart doesn’t invalidate the laws of mathematics. So we would still have to have some kind of a currency reset, but it could cushion the blow by creating enough new wealth that devaluing the dollar by 70% to go back on the gold standard doesn’t impoverish 50% of the population. If we could figure out a way to increase the amount of wealth in the world at the same time we’re doing a currency reset, then it would be a non event. So yes, it’s conceivable but you know, it’s one of those things that we can talk about it in general terms but almost nobody has any kind of a technical sense of how it would happen.

So it’s, it’s almost in the realm of magical thinking right now that where, oh, wouldn’t it be great if you know, and, and, but there’s no way to know how it would happen. So yeah, there’s a lot of stuff going on out there that is, is unique in human history. And because of that it’s hard to focus on the unique stuff and easy to focus on the stuff we understand. And that’s kind of how I approach things. The next couple of years will be like human history and therefore the past is prologue in some way and we can derive predictions from it.

But I think you get further out than that and things start changing in ways that are inherently unpredictable. The deeper you dig into the silver market, the clearer it becomes something isn’t right. Beneath the surface of COMEX and lbma, a game is being played. A game where billions of dollars in paper contracts control the price of a metal that is physically vanishing. Bullion banks, through years of aggressive shorting and derivative manipulation, have managed to keep silver subdued, triggering stop losses, suppressing rallies and maintaining the illusion of abundant supply. But that illusion is starting to crack open.

Interest on comics is falling, speculative volume is drying up and delivery requests are spiking quietly. Vaults are being drained and metal is moving east into the hands of buyers who don’t care about price. They want the metal, not the promise. And now we’re seeing the inevitable result. Arbitrage flows from London to New York. Central bank gold leasing to meet delivery demands and silver premiums rising even as spot prices remain suppressed. These are the signs of a system under strain. Analysts like Alistair MacLeod have warned that the market is heading toward a breaking point. A moment when too many people demand real silver and the exchanges can no longer deliver.

When that day comes, the paper game Ends, shorts get crushed, contracts get cash settled, and the price goes into free fall, not down, but up, violently and without restraint. But it’s not just about a short squeeze. It’s about trust. When investors realize the market they’ve been trading in is a mirage, that the price of silver has been an illusion controlled by financial engineering, they won’t just demand silver, they’ll flee to it. Institutions, funds, even sovereign entities will move to secure physical holdings. And with only a tiny fraction of silver available above ground, the repricing won’t be linear.

It’ll be exponential. The game is ending. And when it does, silver won’t just reclaim its value. It’ll expose the deception that’s kept it suppressed for decades. There’s a whole new branch of mental health now called metabolic psychiatry, where instead of going to a shrink and then they hand you Prozac on the way out or whatever, and you treat the symptoms of your depression or your bipolar disease or whatever, a metabolic shrink will look at your diet and look at your exercise habits, and basically, basically they become a life coach and they show you how to use lifestyle tweaks to cure your depression or whatever.

And that’s a. Well, I mean, things like that have always been around, but they didn’t used to call it metabolic psychiatry, you know, so now it’s, it’s got the patent of a, of an establishment field. And that’s cool, you know, because that’s the kind of thing that actually does fix people’s lives. For instance, exercise does just as much good as Prozac for depression, and you can look at any kind of other psychoactive drug, and there’s a lifestyle fix that does as much good or more than those drugs for you without any of the side effects. So, yeah, there’s so many things we can do to be healthier than we are right now, and that should be priority one, because none of the other stuff matters if you’re sick.

And I think a lot of people have to get sick to realize that, you know, you know, the old sailing saying, if you, you’ve got your health, you’ve got everything, you don’t really understand that until you lose your health. And just hopefully enough people learn that lesson before it’s irrevocable that we build a healthy society from here on out. But you know, personally, the, the, the things you should be focusing on are things like that that you have control over and that smart people have always done. And it’s only in the last generation or two that we, we stopped thinking that way.

And so we should go back to it, you know, so the. The whole reluctant prepper thing, where you, where you come from is the lifestyle of choice going forward right now. And I think more and more people are picking up on that, which is really encouraging. Everything we’ve discussed leads to this. A convergence of forces so powerful that silver is no longer just a precious metal. It’s the detonator for a new financial order. The currency reset is already unfolding. Global debt is spiraling out of control. And the traditional mechanisms of control, interest rates, stimulus, central bank credibility, are failing.

At the same time, physical silver is vanishing. Industrial demand is exploding, and the paper markets are buckling under the weight of their own lies. The illusion of abundance is being shattered. And when the world realizes that the silver they thought existed doesn’t, the panic will be immediate and brutal. In that moment, silver won’t trade like a metal. It will trade like a lifeboat. A finite, tangible, irreplaceable store of value in a sea of collapsing paper. And as investors, governments, and industries rush to secure what little is left, prices won’t just rise, they will detonate. $1,000 silver isn’t a fantasy.

It’s the logical outcome of everything. We’re seeing the destruction of fiat trust, the depletion of real supply, and the awakening of a market that’s been asleep for decades. If you’ve made it this far, then you see the writing on the wall. The time to prepare isn’t when silver starts to move. It’s now. Before the headlines, before the chaos, before the window closes. Make sure to subscribe to stay ahead of the reset. And as always, this is not financial advice. Speak to a professional before making any investment decisions. Sam.
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