The markets for gold and silver are corrupted. There are zillions of paper ounces of each for sale on the market but there are only so many actual real physical ounces in the real world. The government does not want to price of either to get too high so the only thing that will make the prices of either go up significantly are physical shortages in the real world.
The ironic thing is that if I had a few billion dollars or control over a few billion dollars I could single handedly cause the price of silver to skyrocket just by buying up real physical silver and taking possession of it.
That’s the trick, isn’t it? Who are you going to buy all that physical from? If you try through COMEX via the paper route and demand delivery they are more likely to just refund your money and pat you on the head.