➡ The article discusses the increasing demand for silver, especially in industries like green energy and technology, which is outpacing the supply. This imbalance could lead to a significant increase in silver prices. The author also shares his career journey in the brokerage industry, highlighting his experiences with different firms and his decision to retire due to anticipated market crashes. Lastly, the article mentions a silver giveaway on the Silver News Daily Telegram group.

➡ The speaker is leaving the country due to concerns about government overreach and is moving his assets, including silver, overseas. He believes that as the global monetary system weakens, silver’s value as a protective asset is increasing. He also suggests that silver prices have been manipulated in the commodities market, but as central banks hoard gold, silver becomes a more accessible investment for individuals and smaller nations. The speaker also shares a personal story about training a horse in Costa Rica.

➡ The article discusses the potential for a significant increase in silver prices due to a combination of suppressed prices, increased demand, and limited supply. It suggests that the current system of artificially keeping prices low cannot last, and when it fails, the value of physical silver will skyrocket. The article also warns of the possibility of governments seizing private silver holdings in a financial crisis. The author shares personal experiences and insights, emphasizing the importance of understanding the financial system and preparing for potential crises.

➡ The article discusses the potential financial crisis due to high debt levels and the instability of the banking system. It suggests that gold and silver are reliable investments, especially silver, which could become vital for survival in case of hyperinflation. The author, Bill Holter, predicts a financial reset and sees silver as a warning sign of this impending change. He advises people to prepare for this potential scenario.

Foreign. You’re watching Silver News Daily. Subscribe for more of 13 freshmen that, that made the team. I mean it was only a 20 man team. So out of 13 freshmen, only, only one person finished his senior year. And there was a, there was a coaching staff problem. They wanted us to play Russian style hockey. And American kids don’t play Russian style hockey. So anyway, my, my sophomore year in college, I started training martial arts. And it truly was a turning point in, in my life. I grew up and I guess I’m going to spill some beans here.

I grew up kind of an angry kid. I had an alcoholic as a mother. I figured out she was an alcoholic at about 8 or 9 years old. And you know, it wasn’t a, was not a great childhood. You know, my dad did the best he could to hold everything together, but I grew up as an angry kid and I was willing to fight at the drop of a hat. So I started training martial arts. My, my teacher was truly a turning point in my life. I learned at that point, don’t start no shit. There won’t be none.

And I mean physically I was good. I played soccer, so I was really good with my feet. But the problem was here, the problem was in my head. And he really, he, in the three years that I trained with him, he really grew me up. And I learned, you know, you said we, you know, we go into a bar and you, you’re wondering if we need a police escort. No, I’m, I’m not a bar fighter. I’ll stir things up. But, you know, confident enough to, to walk away and, and, and laugh because I, I knew what I could do physically and there was not, there was no reason to, to do anything.

So that was really a turning point in my life. They warned us, but no one listened. Silver under $30, that was your fire sale. Now it’s climbing fast. And Bill Holder says we’re not just heading for higher prices, we’re staring down the barrel of a financial supernova. The fiat system collapses. Paper currencies reduced to confetti. And in the chaos, silver doesn’t just rise, it explodes. $500 an ounce, that’s just the opening act. Holter isn’t pulling punches. He’s calling for a full blown confiscation before silver even sniffs. $1,000? Why? Because when the system breaks, real assets get scarce and silver is already vanishing from the market.

Forget Wall street narratives. This is about survival. And silver may be the last real money standing. Institutions know it. Central banks are bracing. And you, you’ve got one last chance to understand what’s really happening before the fuse hits the powder. Trumbull, Connecticut, started playing hockey when I was six years old. My dad was a hockey player. He grew up in Boston, and his home ice in high school was the Boston Garden. My dad, God rest his soul, was my best friend, best mentor, best coach I ever had. And he knew which buttons on me to push.

He knew how to get the best out of me by basically challenging me. So I played hockey for 14 years. I played varsity my freshman year at University of Connecticut. Me and another guy were, we were the only two walk ons who, who made the varsity team. And I’ll just give you two stats because this is who I was and I guess I still am. One game, we lost 10, 10 to 1. And our goalie had a high. He blocked 100 shots. And me as a defenseman, I blocked 27 shots, which is pretty much what a goalie blocks.

I mean, I was, I was peppered. I was, I was so black and blue the next day, not even funny. And one other stat, and we had a maniac statistician for our high school team. One of the, one of the stats was how many hits. And our team had 90 hits and I had 60 of the 90. So. Oh, and I should say people who don’t know me or see me in person, I’m small. I’m not quite 5 foot 8. I think I was maybe 160 pounds and played defense my whole life. And every coach I ever had said, you’re too small to play defense.

And I said, let me play one shift and if you still think I’m too small, I’ll go play, you know, left wing, right wing, whatever. Silver has already broken through a critical ceiling in 2025, rising over 15% since January and now sitting just shy of $33 an ounce. But this isn’t just a healthy bull run. It’s the early tremor of something much bigger. For over a decade, Silver was trapped beneath the psychological barrier of $30. That wall has now crumbled. And what’s pushing Silver upward isn’t hype. It’s cold, hard fundamentals. Industrial users aren’t just buying buying silver, they’re scrambling for it.

Investors aren’t just speculating. They’re hedging against something much darker looming in the global economy. In the last few months, we’ve watched Silver quietly emerge as the stealth winner in the fight against inflation and economic instability. And the energy behind this move isn’t going away. Quite the opposite. It’s intensifying. Holter sees this surge as just the beginning of an unstoppable trend, one that could lift Silver far beyond anything we’ve seen before. But to understand where it’s going, we need to understand what’s driving it right now. And it all starts with a supply and demand imbalance that’s getting worse by the day.

Worked in Connecticut from 83 to 89, and after the 87 crash, real estate was still going higher. And I was warning people that, you know, real estate was going to collapse. And if you think Back to the 1980s, real estate had never anywhere in the country really gone down. I think at that point, the only place real estate had gone down was Texas because of the oil bust. And I saw some things that just were not right. Like my next door neighbor who was a mailman, I basically had an idea of what he earned. Shows up with this 34 foot boat which cost probably as much as his house.

I just saw any barred against his house to buy the boat. So I saw the credit being built up and interest rates were starting to rise again a little bit, which popped the debt bubble. And real estate ultimately did collapse. But I was out to dinner with my wife one night and I said, we really should move to Texas. Everything’s crashed there. We could buy real estate cheap. And you know, I just always, even as a little kid, I always had interest in, in horses. And in Connecticut, yeah, you could ride, you could ride a horse, but it’s basically, you know, ring riding.

And me, I wanted adventure. I wanted to, you know, just, just ride, ride for miles. And I did, I ended up with, on one horse, I we put over 20,000 miles on together. But I’ve got a friend of mine who’s, I want to say, a true cowboy. He told me, he goes, you know, I’ve heard of many cowboys that have ridden 20,000 miles, but not one ever they rode 20,000 miles on the same horse. So anyway, back in 89, we moved from Connecticut to south Texas, bought a house more than double the size and for half the money.

I mean, that’s how distressed it was. I bought a house that was six months old for $35 a square foot, partially furnished. I mean, how could you lose on that? So that’s how I got to Texas. And when, I mean, the very first thing I did when I got to Texas, I had ridden horses, you know, I don’t know, maybe half dozen times in Connecticut. But when I got to Texas, I met this woman that she was a trainer and she basically Taught me how to ride. She taught me how to ride, put me on, on bareback and told me to put my hands out straight and had the horse on a lead line and walked it, trotted it, and then, then cantered it and it just goes from there.

I mean, and that was. That start right there was the beginning of my love of riding bareback. Because you’re connected with the horse, you know, the horse can feel you. You can feel the horse as long as it’s a good horse. I mean, you could. You should be able to ride a good horse with just an Indian bridle, which is just a rope wrapped around the horse’s nose. So that’s how I got to Texas and I transferred. I was. Let me give you a little timeline. The heart of the silver story lies in a crisis no one can seem to fix.

A 182 million ounce supply deficit. Let that sink in. In 2024 chorus of course. And total silver demand hit 1.21 billion ounces. But supply just 1.03 billion. And that gap isn’t closing, it’s widening. This isn’t a seasonal shortage or a market hiccup. It’s a structural deficit that’s baked into the system. Industrial demand alone is tearing through inventories at record speed with. With sectors like solar energy and electric vehicles consuming more silver than ever before. And even as prices rise, mining output can’t keep up. Holter warns this imbalance isn’t just inconvenient, it’s unsustainable. When demand permanently overshoots supply in any market, prices don’t just go up, they erupt.

And silver’s already on that path. The longer this deficit persists, the tighter the market gets and the closer we inch to a squeeze that could send prices into triple digits faster than anyone expects. Forget the 30 Zellers. This is the groundwork for a move that shocks the financial world. When I first, when I got out of college, I interviewed with nine different brokerage houses. And this was the summer of 1982, which was the bottom of the recession. And brokers were firing, they were not hiring. So I interviewed with nine brokers. Every one of them told me go get some sales experience and come back.

So I worked in life insurance, health insurance, property casualty for about a year’s time, then went back interviewed. I was hired by, by E.F. hutton. And actually a little funny story on that because they interviewed me like I don’t remember, six or seven times. And they, they sent me up to Boston to, to interview with the regional Manager. And we’re were close to done with the interview. And I just flat out said to him, look, you know, this is my sixth or seventh interview. Either you hire me now or I’m going to go across the street, I’ll work for Merrill lynch and I’ll be your biggest nightmare.

And he hired me. And within, I don’t know, it was probably three months, four months. Danny F. Hutton pled guilty to check kiting, which made trying to do business impossible. So I moved from Hutton to Merrill, worked for Merrill for I think two, three, three years. And then it was, it was just before Christmas and Merrill comes out and says they had a big conference call and they said, we’re doing a payout, we’re going to change the payout, but it’s not a payout cut. Well, I went in with a, basically with a calculator and it was absolutely a pay cut.

And I mean, I could have accepted the pay cut, but I can’t accept somebody telling me, you’re so stupid that you don’t know this is a pay cut. So I moved to Shearson and worked for Shearson for a couple years. And that’s when I moved was in 89. I transferred to a Shearson branch in South Texas. And within a year Shearson restructured, closed a bunch of branches. My branch was one that closed. And that’s how I ended up with A.G. edwards. I worked with A.G. edwards for about, well, for 15 years. I got to say it was the best firm I’ve ever worked for.

I really did work in for the other three firms. I really did get to see from the inside. And I guess, I guess I’ll use the word evil, how evil these firms were. And it was such a breath of fresh air going to AG Edwards because they truly put the customer first. I mean, I met Ben Edwards. I played golf with Ben Edwards. He was truly a genuine guy. And the firm, the firm reflected that. And I, so I was at, I was way South Texas. I was down in the Harlingen area. Silver isn’t just being hoarded by investors.

It’s being devoured by industry. The green energy transition is no longer a future concept. It’s a present day megatrend. And silver is right at its core. In 2023, the photovoltaic sector alone consumed nearly 200 million ounces. And in 2024, that number surged by 20%, breaking past 230 million. Solar panels can’t function without silver’s unmatched conductivity. And there’s no viable substitute. Every Panel installed, every rooftop upgraded pulls more silver off the market. And that’s before we even get to electric vehicles. EVs are now rolling out in the tens of millions with each one demanding 25 to 50 grams of silver.

Add in 5G infrastructure, AI powered data centers, and the explosion in smart electronics and the industrial silver machine is running red hot. And here’s the kicker. As demand grows, supply can’t scale fast enough. This isn’t like past silver booms where investor sentiment alone drove the price. Today, it’s a fundamental necessity for the technologies defining the next decade. Holter’s point is brutal but accurate. Industrial demand isn’t just pushing silver higher. It’s threatening to make it unavailable for anyone who waits too long. Always analyzed markets and oftentimes come up, you know, contrarian. And I mean I had a big position trade going into the crash of 1987 with zero coupon treasury bonds.

I built a huge position and I was catching all kinds of crap because interest rates were going up, the bonds were depreciating, but I just kept buying hand over fist and rates went as high as 1045. And within, I don’t know, two weeks after the crash, they were below eight and a half. So it was a huge, huge move. And the bonds, the bonds basically doubled. So I’ve been a contrarian in 2005, 2006. I smelled what was coming in 2000. I thought it was going to happen sooner than it did. It took a little longer to unfold.

I mean, I retired and walked away from the business in November of 2006. And the reason I did that was I had a career. And now I thought about it last night, Andy, in my career I worked as a broker for 23 years and I’ve now been doing, you know, precious metals brokering for since what, 2011. And I did, you know, I worked as on a consulting basis from the 06 when I left to 2011. And I’ve never had a lawsuit, I’ve never had a settlement. I’ve never had an arbitration and nor did any of my brokers during that 12 years.

That is an impossible, that’s an impossible statistic to go through an entire brokerage career and not have a single, you know, no settlement, no arbitration, no problems whatsoever. And I knew what was coming. I knew the markets were going to crash. And I was, as a branch manager, you’re on the hook for every single trade done in the office. So the way I look at it was in 2006, I felt that I had enough money to basically walk away and decided, you know, we started looking where are we going to go to. But I wanted to exit the US because I I was at that point I was really pissed off because of what happened after 911 they put the Patriot act which was written before 911 by the way.

So I was, I was pretty pissed off living in the United States, watching them strip the population of liberties. So decided to move and we decided to move to Costa Rica. Well I had a bunch of gold on hand and I had some gold held in Delaware. 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. Here’s how to enter the 10 ounce silver giveaway. Be subscribed to Silver News Daily on YouTube. Turn on the notification bell, comment 10 ounce giveaway on three separate videos. Be an active member of the telegram group and say hi. Once we hit 500 Active Telegram members, we’ll pick one lucky winner to receive 10 ounces of silver shipped directly to you. So get in early, stay active. 5chatgpt said. Here’s where the storm really brews. Production is faltering. Despite silver’s rising price, global mining output is barely budging. In fact, total supply actually fell by 1% in 2024.

That’s right. Even with prices incentivizing miners production isn’t keeping pace. Why? Because the easy silver is gone or grades are declining, costs are climbing, and new discoveries are few and far between. The largest producers like Mexico, Peru and China are either stalling or shrinking. And geopolitical instability in these regions only adds to the uncertainty. We’re not just facing a deficit from rising demand, we’re hitting a wall on the supply side. This is the squeeze Holter keeps talking about. The market can’t conjure up new silver on demand. It takes years to develop new mines and even longer to bring them to full production.

And in the meantime, the world keeps demanding more silver for Solar, more for EVs, more for electronics, while actual physical supply dries up. This isn’t a blip. It’s a long term structural failure that’s about to collide with a wave of financial panic. Because this is them pushing on me for moving. Oh, and I said to him, I go, this is because. Because I. I traveled with gold yesterday. Huh. And he goes, he goes, oh, we didn’t know. We, you know, we didn’t know that. And the Homeland Security guy, who had no training, he was like, brand new because Homeland Security was brand new.

He goes, like, he just looks at the FBI guy. He goes, oh, he knows why we’re here. Long story short, I told the guy, the FBI guy, I said, look, this is exactly why I’m leaving the country, because of, like this. I said, if you want, go in my house. It’s all boxed up. We’re leaving in a week or 10 days or whatever it was. You could break into the boxes if you want. You’re welcome to, to break, you know, break down my computer, check everything if you want. And he says to me, he goes, well, we can’t do that because we don’t have a warrant.

And I basically said, bullshit. Doesn’t matter whether you have a warrant or not. You use the word terrorism, which means you don’t need a warrant. So it ended up, he’s asking me, well, if you did know of a terrorist event, would you say anything? And I said, you’re damn right I’d say something. I’m an American patriot. And again, this is exactly why I’m leaving the country, because of stuff like this. So now they leave. Now I’ve got to fly to Switzerland to meet the metal at the vault. And I gotta fly, you know, two or three days after that to Costa Rica with my family.

I am absolutely bricks that I’m on the, on the no fly list. I mean, I’m taking off to go to Switzerland. I’m calling, I’m on the phone with my wife. I’m like, we’re in the air. We’re in the air. I mean, I was, I was really worried that I was gonna know, get shut down. How am I going to even go to Costa Rica? Am I going to swim? So went to Switzerland, met the metal, deposited it, and then three or four days after I got back, we moved to Costa Rica. And while the physical market tightens, the monetary system is quietly disintegrating.

Behind the scenes, central banks around the world are trapped. Interest rates soared in 2023 to contain inflation. But now cuts are coming and fast. That means the return on holding fiat currencies and bonds is evaporating. What does that leave? Real assets? And silver, once dismissed as gold’s little brother feather, is now reasserting its role as a monetary shield. As governments print more money to paper over debt crises and economic slowdowns, the value of paper currency erodes it’s not theory. It’s happening now. Inflation is sticky, wages are stagnant, and purchasing power is disappearing. Holter points to this exact scenario as the spark for a silver surge.

When confidence in fiat collapses, investors don’t wait. They flee into tangible value. Gold gets headlines, but silver’s performance during monetary panic is often sharper, more violent. It’s the metal that responds with torque. And right now, silver is coiled tight, fueled not just by industrial demand, but by the growing realization that paper money is losing its meaning. Which that side note on that. I deposited 2001 coins, and I received 2006 coins. I got coin for coin. Didn’t lose anything, but they did something with my gold. So anyway, I had two clients up in Connecticut that we wanted to ship metal.

We wanted to get metal outside of the United States. So we decided to open accounts in Switzerland. We ended up opening accounts in baseline. So we got to. You know, I’ve been to Basel quite a few times, but because of Homeland Security as an individual, you could not ship metal overseas. It had to go through a corporation, it had to go through a company. And of course, Homeland Security had to come into your house and. Or the Homeland Security had to go into a business. You had to be a business and make sure you weren’t building bombs.

They had to make sure you weren’t a terrorist in order to ship metal outside of the US So I had two clients in Connecticut. They were business partners. They had a business. And what I. What I did, we were going to ship the metal all together, which we did. I went to Houston Airport, walked through the metal detector, and the guy whispered to me, he goes, coins? I said, yeah, coins, because it’s not illegal. I mean, you know, that. To go state to state. And I flew to Connecticut, dropped the metal off, turned around, got on the same plane that two hours later came back home.

I wake up the next morning, and I’m upstairs on the computer. My wife comes upstairs and she says, I don’t know if these are two asshole buddies of yours or not, but there’s two guys at the front door. One says he’s with the FBI, and the other guy says he’s from Homeland Security. I’m like, what? So I go downstairs. Yeah, sure enough, it’s definitely an FBI guy, because the FBI office was in my building, and I knew his partner through Rotary. I didn’t know this guy, but I knew his face, and he knew my face. And the guy says to me, and as fiat currencies lose credibility, central banks are scrambling not for dollars, but for gold.

In 2024, central bank gold purchases shattered expectations, marking the 15th straight year of net accumulation. But here’s what the mainstream won’t say. This gold buying spree casts a long shadow. And that shadow is silver. While silver isn’t officially held by central banks in the same volumes, its role as a monetary asset is quietly re emerging. Holter argues that as gold becomes increasingly scarce and politicized, silver becomes the natural next move, especially for individual investors and smaller nations priced out of the gold market. And it’s not just sentiment. History backs it up. During monetary panics, silver has always played catch up to gold with ferocity, often outperforming it in percentage gains.

We’re already seeing the gold silver ratio begin to narrow, a signal that silver is regaining its monetary premium. As central banks keep hoarding gold to hedge against the collapse they helped create, silver becomes the escape hatch for the rest of the world. And once that shift accelerates, the move could be as fast as it is irreversible. Yeah, a golf buddy of mine, as soon as I got there, I started looking for a horse. And a golf buddy of mine said, well, I’ve got one that, that I’m interested in selling. And I rode him. And he was, he was broke.

I mean, he was not well trained or anything, but I really liked his gait. He would, he would pick up and, and flare outwards, which is really a special gate. It’s a Spanish gate. So I bought the horse as a trail horse. And that’s really all I thought it was going to be. And I was out. We used to go on Sundays. We would go from bar to bar to bar to bar to bar and tie our horses up, go and have a beer, two beers, and go to the next bar. By the end of the day, me and the horse were arguing and this guy comes riding up and I knew who he was.

He was either the best or the second best trainer in the country. And he asked me, he goes, would you like me to train your horse for a month for $100? And I’m like, yeah, absolutely. I mean, training in the States would have been, you know, pretty close to a thousand dollars a month. So we trained him for a month. And then, you know, he asked if, if I wanted to keep going. I said, absolutely. And he said it would be best if you ride while I’m training the horse. So what I did was for 12 months.

And this was, this was toward the, the end of, of me being in Costa Rica because I left and I left the horse there for about, I don’t know, 10 months or thereabouts, which was good because he would have died in the fire that took my house when we moved back. But anyway, so truly this horse was turned into a show horse. I mean he was Spanish dressage, he did paso espanol, he did piaffe, did passage, and he did something special that made him, if he was not gelded, he was a half million dollar. And I paid $2,000 for this horse.

But he was a half million dollar horse all day long because I could get him to change leads on a gallop or a canter on every step. So he’s, he’s, he’s going like that. That is, that is an absolute top level dressage gate. So I worked with him and rode for about 12 months and then, and, and got to the point where we decided to move back and I left him with the trainer for another nine or 10 months or whatever because we’d moved the furniture, had had everything moved and I did want him to, to continue training with this guy.

Oh, and by the way, that the trainer, I asked him after two or three months, I said would it be better to train him twice a day? And he said oh yeah, absolutely, but I didn’t think you wanted to spend the extra a hundred bucks. But behind all of this, there’s a darker undercurrent, a battlefield hidden in plain sight. The comics. This is where the paper silver game is played. And according to Holter and others, it’s where prices have been manipulated for years. The commitments of traders reports reveal an unsettling truth. Money managers remain underexposed to silver compared to historical averages, despite surging fundamentals.

That suggests there’s dry powder waiting on the sidelines, but also a system that’s been artificially suppressing prices through short positions and, and synthetic contracts. Holter believes these tactics have kept silver prices subdued while demand has quietly exploded. But that suppression can’t last forever. The technical patterns don’t lie. Higher highs, higher lows and tightening penance all point to a breakout. And when Comex traders finally scramble to cover their shorts in a thin, illiquid market, the result could be a squeeze of historic proportions. One that forces paper traders to settle in physical silver. A problem because that silver may no longer exist in the quantities they promised.

The moment the trust breaks, paper silver burns and physical silver reclaims its true value. Coupon treasury position into, into the rates going higher just before the crash. And when the markets crashed, rates, rates within I think four months or, or thereabouts were sniffing at 7% from 1045 and the leverage on zero coupon treasuries, people more than doubled their money in very short, short period of time. And of course the higher rates ended up popping the real estate market. So I mean that was, I was definitely against consensus there. I mean when we decided to move to Texas, my, my first wife worked at a real estate company and told people were, you know, we’re going to move to Texas.

And of course people asked why and she said because Bill thinks real estate is going to crash. She came home crying because everybody told her that I was a complete idiot, fool. Well, the real estate market crashed and by 9192 on the east Coast, I mean there was bankruptcies everywhere. So that was one. The next one was the dot com bubble. Like I said before, you know, I didn’t, we, in my office, we did not have any big concentrated positions in any of the dot coms. So we, we walked through it, you know, without, without any problems.

And of course people were telling me, you know, you’re an idiot, you’re missing this. Well, I missed that. But I also missed the collapse because I knew it was fake. And then of course the, probably the biggest one was me leaving the country late 2006 and I felt really bad. In, I think it was February or March of 07, AG Edwards got bought out. And because I was under 50 years old, their policy was you don’t get paid for your book and your options that are vested, you don’t get them because you’re under 50. So I walked away and I was thinking to myself, well, all I had to do was stay another three or four months and I had well over a million dollars in, in what the options would have been worth when A.G.

edwards was bought out by, I believe it was Wachovia. And then Wachovia was bought out by Wells Fargo. So I was kind of bummed out about that. But within, what was it, eight months or 10 months, Wachovia went under and those, those, the options became worthless. So I didn’t feel so bad. But you know, that was, that was certainly against consensus. People told me I was know, absolutely out of my mind that I, you know, that I, I’d leave the job that I had leave the country based on, you know, what, what people said could never happen, which of course it did and it’s going to happen this time way worse.

I want to do, I do want to say this. What I missed, the biggest thing that I missed was after the, or going into the 070809 great financial crisis. I never believed that the central banks and sovereign treasuries would basically bankrupt their balance sheets, saving the system. They did save the system. But now just look at the balance sheets of every major central bank in the world. They’re all insolvent. Chatgpt said. Now here’s where the fuse hits the powder. Price targets that once seemed extreme are quickly becoming conservative. Holter doesn’t just throw out numbers to shock.

He lays out the mechanics of a silver detonation. $500 an ounce isn’t wild speculation. It’s the logical consequence of supply collapse, monetary erosion and institutional panic converging all at once. And if the deficit deepens, if fiat continues to unravel, that $500 figure could look small in hindsight. Analysts already see silver pushing toward 35 or 37 in the short term, with some whispering $50 as early as next year. But these projections are based on current trends, not crisis scenarios. If inflation accelerates or geopolitical tension disrupts mining flows from key regions like Mexico and Russia, silver could launch with a speed that catches the entire market off guard.

And it won’t wait for consensus. The move will be sharp, parabolic and unforgiving. When silver goes vertical, there’s no second chance to reposition. Holter sees the groundwork being laid not just for a price rally, but for a financial reckoning that makes today’s price levels look absurdly cheap. Then they have this beautiful grass area with a, it’s probably a 40 foot high and maybe 20 foot wide green cross that pretty much the whole valley can see. So we went out there before dinner, went in, had dinner, we’d finished dinner and ordered dessert and I went out, I went out the back door where we had been before and the, the sidewalk to the, to the grassy area was straight, but there was a sidewalk off to the left.

So I’m thinking, well, I already went this way. Let me see, what’s this way? What was, what was. To the left turn was a sidewalk that went exactly three paces. They stopped building it because it was a straight down 10 foot drop and I walked right off of it. There was no lights, no chain, no nothing. I fell, broke my back. They wanted to carry me out. I’m like, no way. I knew there was something wrong with my back, so I actually walked out of the hole the long way. Went to the, I sent an ambulance, went to the hospital.

And the guy says to me, he goes, well, you’re really lucky you didn’t break anything. Everything’s good. I stood up, I said, fine, and I’m going home. I took three steps. I said, I had such pain. I said, now I think I’ll spend the night here. Well, two o’ clock in the morning, my phone rings. I reach over to pick up the phone and the. On the other line was in a. This was really lucky for me. It was the orthopedic surgeon that was the best in the country. It happened to be the vice president’s son who was schooled in Washington state and interned at Baylor.

So this guy was the top, top notch. And he says to me, he goes, don’t move. You broke your back. And if you move wrong, you could be paralyzed. Well, I just reached over to pick up the phone. He said, you know, don’t just press the button. Don’t get up to go to the bathroom. Don’t move, don’t do anything because you need surgery tomorrow morning. So that’s. Oh, and, and afterwards, of course, the, the judge or the courts or whatever, they said it was my fault because I was, you know, I was drunk. And a non drunk person would not have fallen off the.

Fallen off the. Walked off the sidewalk. I mean, it was, it was completely dark, no chain, no nothing. I had two beers, but I was a gringo. And just when you think the story couldn’t get any more extreme, Holter issues a warning most investors haven’t even considered confiscation. Yes, you heard that right. He believes governments, when cornered by systemic collapse and desperate to preserve control, won’t hesitate to seize private silver holdings before the price even approaches $1,000. Sound far fetched? Think again. History is riddled with examples of asset confiscation during crises, Most notably Roosevelt’s 1933 executive order on gold.

If the public starts fleeing fiat en masse and silver becomes a critical monetary alternative, Holter argues that it will be viewed not as a commodity, but as a threat to the financial establishment. That’s when possession becomes political. And if institutional silver dries up and physical inventories vanish, governments may move swiftly to secure what’s left. This isn’t about fear mongering. It’s about understanding the stakes in a monetary collapse. All bets are off. What you think is yours today may not be tomorrow. And in Holter’s eyes, if you’re holding silver when the system breaks, you may find yourself holding something the government suddenly wants back.

I’m going to say what, what started me off on my, my digging financially. I can tell you it was the very first class in college. It was Economics 101. I opened up the book, I think it was a Keynesian book. And I could still see it at the bottom of the first page. And it went to the top of the second page. It said, we don’t know why the Great Depression happened, but we do know it can never happen again. And that was my first business moment calling bullshit. I’m like, if you don’t know why it happened, how can you say it can never happen again? And I dog.

I mean, I’m in college digging, you know, researching, and I came to realize it was debt. It was too much debt, too much leverage in the system. And then of course, I realized that the dollar was at that point, you know, this was 1978 and we’d gone off the. Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. So that’s what, what gave me interest in gold. And then when I was at Merrill lynch, the. I forget what his title was, but he was basically the. Call him chief economist or whatever. A guy by the name of Stan Salvakson, really brilliant guy, was talking about real estate popping, talking about the debt levels were starting to rise and he peeled off and started Comstock Partners with Aronson.

And I forget who the other guy was, but basically they made money during the crash. And Salvakson talked about, you know, the, the foundation of everything was treasuries. And, and they are fallible. And we know they’re fallible now because the US Is going to pay like one and a half trillion in interest. I mean, it’s, mathematically, it’s unsustainable. And he talked about it at that time, and this would have been 1987, 88. And he said, really, the only true foundation is gold. So now I’m looking at, I’m digging and looking at gold and I’m, you know, I’m buying a little bit here, buying a little bit.

They’re putting 5 or 10% in all the portfolios because that’s, you know, that was the recommendation. And then came 1977. I’m sorry, 1997, when gold went under $335 an ounce, that was the cost of production. And just like buying my house in south Texas at $35 a square foot, if you buy something cheaper than it can be replaced at some point in time, you’re going to make money. So 1997 is where I really, I personally went in all in gold, silver miners. And then I started building a pretty big, pretty big position in the miners and gold and silver.

And I was shipping Gold shipping, silver out to customers. And I guess an additional factor to me being frustrated and leaving in 2006 was as a branch manager, I was. This is where everything converges. The debt crisis, the inflation spiral, the fragile banking system. It’s all pointing to one thing, the endgame of fiat. Holter doesn’t see this as a slow erosion. He sees it as a snap, a moment when the illusion of stability vanishes overnight. And when it does, the exodus from paper will be brutal and immediate. We’re already watching the early signs. Banking instability, relentless deficit spending, currencies being devalued at home and abroad.

The public is waking up, slowly at first, but once panic sets in, silver will no longer be seen as an investment. It’ll be survival. Hyperinflation doesn’t ask for permission. It erases savings, crushes wages, and resets the rules. In that world, silver isn’t just valuable, it’s vital. And Holter believes that shift could be just around the corner. Once trust in the system collapses, the flight to real assets becomes a stampede. Gold may lead, but silver, with its smaller market and explosive upside, will catch fire. And those holding it will no longer be speculators, but they’ll be survivors.

Originally, in 2011, we moved back from Costa Rica in May and our house burned down at the end of the beginning of September. That, that wildfire took 1700 houses. And I’m fighting with, you know, fighting with the insurance. It took over a year to get. Get all the insurance money paid out, and I can’t, you know, I called you and I. And you knew who I was because I had written for data from 2007 to 2011. So you knew who I was, you knew what my writings were. And I asked, I said, you know, do you have any use for.

For a writer? And you said, yeah, absolutely. And actually let me go back when I was writing for Data, I signed off as Bill H. I didn’t want to put my name on it because it was controversial and I’ll never know who the client of mine was, but I was writing for about, call it, two dozen clients that I kept on a consulting basis. And somehow, some way it got to Bill Murphy, it got to Chris Powell at Gotta, and they started posting. Every time I wrote something, poof, it would post. And then it started to spread.

And I don’t think I’ve told this story publicly. I don’t think I’ve ever told this story. In 2011, Bill Murphy invited me to go to the Gadda Conference in London. It was sponsored by Eric Sprott. And the four big speakers were Eric Sprott, his partner John Abery, James Turk, and Jim Sinclair. The my four heroes in business. I mean, my absolute top four heroes. So I get there and I meet Eric Sprott. I’m out having a cigarette. Eric comes out and has a cigarette. And I talked with him one on one for 45 minutes. And I was kind of surprised he even knew who I was.

And then I had another session with him for 45 minutes. I walked inside one day and there’s James Turk talking with a bunch of people. And I just walked up to him and introduced him or introduced myself to him. I said, I’m Bill Holter, I write for. You know, I’ve written for Gatta under the name Bill H. He goes, oh, you’re Bill H. He goes, let me tell you something. Everything we’ve laid out, the deficit, the industrial hunger, the fiat unraveling, it’s not theoretical anymore. It’s here. And Bill Holter’s message is crystal clear. Silver isn’t just climbing, it’s detonating.

Not because of hype, but because the very foundations of our financial system are fracturing in real time. 500 silver. That’s not the top. It’s the warning shot. A decade of suppression is cracking under the pressure of soaring demand and vanishing supply. And when the fiat system breaks, when trust evaporates overnight, Silver will be the panic button the world rushes to slam. Holter doesn’t just predict a rally, he’s forecasting a reset. And silver is his signal flare. If you’ve followed this far, you know exactly what’s at stake. Now, the only question is, are you prepared? Hit that subscribe button to stay ahead of the curve.

And remember, this isn’t financial advice. Always speak with a professional before making any financial decisions.
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