[norcal joe]

Just curious - why did you post that? Are you a communist? Seriously.

[Mariner]

I posted it to troll for stupid people.

[The Duke]

He posted it because over this past weekend silver has gone absolutely crazy in the Asian markets (which have not been closed). Some industrial silver-dependent businesses are even instructing their buyers to "pay whatever it takes" to buy silver. The belief is that this is going to cause many banks to go under rather quickly (in fact, I heard of one very large European bank that has already been "liquidated" over this.).

Because silver is critical to the US defense industry, we could even find ourselves staring at silver confiscation.

These are the types of things that could have a big influence across all markets. We're basically in uncharted territory.