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Economics & Investing Links of Interest
- Spot silver [1] closed at $72.12 per Troy ounce on Wednesday. Gold, platinum, and palladium were also up, similarly. And also on Wednesday, we saw $77.12 in Shanghai trading! (A huge opportunity for the arb traders.) For anyone who established their silver stack at below $35 per ounce, this is a logical time to liquidate 5% of your silver holdings, and put the proceeds into a different tangible, such as paying down a home mortgage or HELOC, or stacking some full ammo cans or spare un-papered guns. There is almost always an advantage to diversification. For some details on how to gradually divest, see my recent article: Planning Your Silver Bull Market Exit Strateg [2]y. – JWR
- It has been reported that just after 1:30 a.m. on Thursday morning, December 25th (Christmas Day), there was an unannounced international conference call, to conspire to suppress the silver bull market. The call was between executives of JP Morgan, HSBC, CME Group, the LBMA, the US Treasury Department, and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The call lasted just over 45 minutes. They made a secret “gentlemen’s agreement”, so there were no minutes taken of this conference call. All of the parties involved agreed to do their best to hold the price of silver contracts below $75 USD per Troy ounce. But with unstoppable physical silver buying continuing in Asia, the conspiracy to suppress silver pricing is doomed to fail. Watch for some spectacular fireworks in silver trading in the next four weeks.
- With the silver bull market on a rampage, this is a particularly advantageous time for SurvivalBlog readers to trade silver for guns, at Elk Creek Company [3]. With federally-exempt “antiques” there is no FFL paperwork required. But please check your state and local laws before ordering. Just let me know when you pick out one or more pre-1899 antique guns, or other items from my Elk Creek Company catalog, and what you have to trade. (You may ignore the Ordering Hiatus notice on my main web page, when making trades.) – JWR
- From The Economic Times (of India): Why is silver price rising and how long will it rise as silver price hits a new record high of $66.5 per ounce, up 130% this year [4].
- Reuters: Dollar set for worst year since 2017, yen still in focus [5].
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