I went to buy a bunch more physical silver (and a wee bit of gold) yesterday at the reputable dealer I’ve been using for sevral years. They’ve always had so much excess inventory that I had to wonder what all the hype was about.
Yesterday, they had almost nothing left after I bought mine. Almost no bars of any denomination, just a handful of rounds, and two more $100 face bags back in the vault. They looked a bit anxious.
Gold was also in moderately sparse supply: maybe a dozen pure 1 oz coins, two 1/2 oz coins, a handful of various non-pure coins, and one 1 oz bar.
We head for interesting times.
Interesting times indeed!