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The ECB is worried about systemic financial system risk from a squeeze in the gold market
Bold emphasis is mine: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/financial-stability-publications/fsr/focus/2025/html/ecb.fsrbox202505_02~7f616fcd3f.en.html You don't say?- pmbug
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Silver Presents the Magical Metal Mystery
By all accounts, silver has been in a structural deficit, with global demand exceeding global production, for over four years now: Above ground supply has made up the difference with inventory draining from major vaults in the COMEX and LBMA...- pmbug
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Silver Squeeze 2.0 Comprehensive Thesis
An overview of recent developments in the silver market and the nascent #silversqueeze 2.0 effort.- pmbug
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Bank of England delaying gold deliveries 4 to 8 weeks
It's being widely reported that the Bank of England is delaying gold deliveries by 4 to 8 weeks. This appears to be a technical default...- Voodoo
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Gold As Unpegged Legal Tender
Considering the possibility of gold as unpegged legal tender ...- pmbug
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The Seventh Characteristic of Money
... history only records six characteristics for money. It is with the development of digital money systems that a seventh characteristic for money becomes apparent ...- pmbug
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America's War on Crypto
The American government is currently employing a three pronged attack on the crypto industry in an attempt to suffocate it. ...- pmbug
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Silver Demand Drivers (and vault totals)
Tracking silver vault totals for the COMEX, LBMA and SGE/SFE monthly. Also contains news and discussion related to industrial demand vectors for silver.- pmbug
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