by Craig Hemke, Sprott Money:
Over the past few months, we’ve written frequently about palladium and the threat it poses to The Banks’ Fractional Reserve and Digital Derivative Pricing Scheme. As palladium prices are continuing to rise, we thought it best to explain this dynamic again today.
A few years back, my friend Max Keiser coined the phrase “buy silver, crash JP Morgan”. Back then it was hoped that silver could be a “magic bullet”, where physical demand would expose and crash the current fraudulent pricing scheme. And it nearly worked, too, as a massive Commercial short squeeze in 2011 nearly led to a runaway price spike. Only through the direct, official intervention of the CFTC and CME was price reversed and the crisis averted.
by Hubert Moolman, Silver Seek:
The way I see it, silver has basically two major categories of use. The first and most important use is as a monetary asset. It is only when used as a monetary asset that it could realize its true (or fair) value.
Currently, it is probably as far away (not time wise though) from being used as a monetary asset, as it has ever been. It is for this reason that silver is so under valued and such a must-buy.
The second is really all other uses that is strictly non-monetary. This is how it is currently (materially) being used. Under this scenario it is just another asset that rises in price when excessive credit (including money printing) is created.
by Harvey Organ, Harvey Organ Blog:
GOLD ADVANCES ANOTHER $3.10 BY COMEX CLOSING TIME TO $1341.85/SILVER ADVANCES 19 CENTS TO $16.20/FOMC: GOLD BULLISH AS THE FED CLOWNS ARE LOOKING TO END ROLL OFFS FROM ITS BALANCE SHEET BY YEAR END//SEEMS THAT MUELLER WILL END HIS WITCH HUNT BY NEXT WEEK/MORE SWAMP STORIES FOR YOU TONIGHT
GOLD: $1344.95 UP $3.10 (COMEX TO COMEX CLOSING)
Silver: $16.20 UP 19 CENTS (COMEX TO COMEX CLOSING)
by Mish Shedlock, The Maven:
On a daily basis, gold held the $1280 to $1310 level then jumped higher today by $22.70 to $1344 for no apparent reason.
Regardless, the move was long overdue due to increasing deficits and other related issues including absurd proposals to waste $100 trillion on New Green Deals. Since the latter is years away, at least, I doubt that’s the reason.
by Harvey Organ, Harvey Organ Blog:
SILVER BREAKS THE $16.00 BARRIER AT $16.01 UP 25 CENTS/WE HAVE AT THE COMEX: 33.45 TONNES OF GOLD STANDING FOR DELIVERY OF WHICH THERE IS ONLY 23.13 TONNES OF REGISTERED GOLD AND ALREADY 31.825 TONNES OF GOLD HAVE BEEN SERVED UPON//JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TRAPPED AS THERE IS LITTLE LEFT OF BONDS TO BUY AND YET THEY NEED MORE STIMULUS// VENEZUELA IS A CONTINUAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL AS MORE BANKS CUT THEM OFF FOR FUNDING: MADURO REFUSES FOREIGN AID/TED BUTLER: A MUST READ ON THE SILVER FRAUD//HUGE NUMBER OF SWAMP STORIES FOR YOU TONIGHT
