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LBMA Silver Vault Stock vs UK Net Imports
The LBMA's monthly silver stock report appears to be claiming more growth than UK monthly silver imports can explain - by about 866 metric tons net from November 2024 through December 2025.- pmbug
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Silver Timeline
~2020: Silver begins a structural supply/demand deficit where mining production + scrap recycling < industrial demand. The structural deficit begins draining existing vault stocks from the LBMA et al 2021: The US military begins sourcing silver...- pmbug
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Diving Deeper into the Silver Magical Metal Mystery
At the beginning of the year, the Exchange For Physical (EFP) spread for silver (calculated as COMEX futures minus LBMA spot) rose dramatically from near zero to almost $1. This was largely attributed to fears or confusion over USA tariff policy...- pmbug
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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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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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Tin Foil Hats, Economic Reality and the Total Perspective Vortex
Ongoing discussion of events related to the world reserve currency ...- pmbug
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