Posted on 12/26/2025 7:21:34 PM PST by chud
The price of silver is about $78.65 as of Friday—a new high—according to the New York Commodity Exchange.
Silver’s price surge has outpaced gold, though the more expensive metal’s price rose just over 1.2% to hit a high of $4,562.70 on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Bingo! At $30 a $3 swing is 10%. At $300 a $3 swing is only 1%.
“Among metal additive manufacturing technologies, the two most widely used forms are direct energy deposition (DED)... and powder bed fusion (PBF), and in PBF, it is further divided into selective laser melting (LPBF) with a continuous laser as the energy source (accounting for 82% of the PBF market in 2016) and electron beam powder bed melting (EBPBF) with an electron beam as the energy source.
“In terms of applicable materials, nickel (Ni)-based, titanium (Ti)-based, aluminum (Al)–copper (Cu)-based, iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), tantalum (Ta)-based, molybdenum (Mo)-based alloys and alloys such as 316L and 304 stainless steel all show good results in the LPBF process”
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/15/7/846
“the trade is driven by pure speculation”
The trade may be based on solar power manufacturing demand, but it won’t last.
The experts know what the Chinese solar factories are doing, but we’ll find out only later.
Just a suggestion, but watch this YouTube video from 12/26. This guy explains the silver market very clearly. Personally, I am holding onto my stack.
https://youtu.be/A8f2usiVNJg?si=2AzTwJTGH9o1_XkK
Good luck with whatever decision you make.
MFO
It will turn so fast at the peak, you won’t be able to cash out your physical silver in a timely way. That is why investors should convert at least some of their silver into paper silver, so they can cash out in a moment’s notice.
With all the buzz, I decided to dig out the actual old leather bank pouch I knew was laying around here with a bunch of old silver dollars.
All but one single one was an early 1970's Eisenhower.... I've got 25 bucks!
I never dared to dabble in such things, so I do salute those of you who did!
And now? I still don't dare, lol.
I don’t dabble; I just started a little hoard of silver dollars when I was young because I thought they were cool, and then started saving silver coins when toy money was introduced. I should haul it out and count it.
When we are ALL forced to go to the new digital dollar, the greenback we now hold will value the same as Confederate money. We will be given a timeliness to convert or go bust. The new digital ID you will be given will ensure no scamming or theft as all transactions will be tracked. You will be completely secure!! What a glorious Brave New World awaits us!!
Either you are placing a LOT of faith in paper fiat, or you are stuck with paper silver.
Any CBDC or digital currency not backed by PMs, will have a very short lifespan.
So, a CBDC may be a transitional thing, perhaps a last gasp fiat, prior to returning to Constitutional money.
Yeah some people like the CBDC but most prefer the THC kind.
how dare you speak the truth ...
If you don’t have silver or gold in your hand you don’t have it.
“”””When we are ALL forced to go to the new digital dollar, the greenback we now hold will value the same as Confederate money. We will be given a timeliness to convert or go bust. The new digital ID you will be given will ensure no scamming or theft as all transactions will be tracked. You will be completely secure!! What a glorious Brave New World awaits us!!””””
The concept of controlling people began 2000 years ago when the Apostle John wrote about 666 being required to buy or sell.
Since then we have only had a couple of novels, Brave New World and 1984, who described a world where people were totally controlled.
Let’s pray we can keep Big Brother locked up as we enter this hyped up AI future.
While severely debauching the physical uses and markets for the actual metal.
Consider that the paper market, with perhaps 300-400 paper ounces for each physical ounce, keeps the price extremely low. While this would seem to benefit manufactures creating solid state batteries, EVs, Military Industrial Complex missiles and weaponry and solar panels, it also stifles the minors now reluctant to pull the metal out of the ground and out of the mined ore.
It’s prophesied. It will happen eventually.
It is just a “math thing”...if you want a gold-backed dollar convertible on a 1-1 basis i.e. $1 gold-backed dollar is redeemable for $1 in gold (like the old gold & silver certificates) then the U.S. govt. official price of gold needs to be around $85,363./troy oz.. (My math: $22.3 Trillion in U.S. “M2” money supply divided by the 261.5 million troy ounces of gold in U.S. reserves).
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?eid=155805&rid=426
Or just use these:
Sounds fine to me... much better to have a solid $85,363 silver price than a $79 {silver/paper/ETF} inflatable/deflatable price. The latter manipulated by banksters for their own greed and graft.
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