It's also the start of Crunch Time in our individual budgets.
I don't have much to buy with, now. It saves me the choice - I don't THINK PM prices will crash, but somehow, the silver run-up so quickly seems a bit unnatural. It's probably whales buying up - perhaps the Samsung battery-announcement has led to front-running and stockpiling. What happens if that doesn't come to be, for a variety of reasons, including cost when used in consumer goods, WEF/Globalist restrictions on personal travel, etc, etc.? Is this the Hunt Brothers all over again?
Gold. Little industrial applications (yes, there are uses, but more valuable as a store-of-value). So it runs up to 10x what it was 20 years ago? Prices, also, have run up to nearly 10x what they were back then. Homes. Cars. Beef. Medical insurance. You name it.
So, the "profit" is only holding our own position. Good - that's what it's supposed to do. But what of those of us who have only gotten a 2x increase in income - or who have retired, with a nominal CUT in income?
Central banks, and Asian governments, don't care what is the price. Globalists probably do - can't be sure how they think, or try to think. Suppose the paper market DOES NOT immediately come apart, and they find new ways, with restrictions on metal delivery, to again spike up the paper market? OR, just tax the living snot out of gold sales? OR EVEN, just by gubbermint decree, impose a set price, say, $100/ounce? What would happen THEN?
Of course the gold market would lock up. But the gubbermint would have closed an exit ramp to their corrupt forever-debt system, as well.
So, I have no idea. Doesn't matter to me, as I don't have to make a choice right now.