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Physical Gold and Silver shortage

LBMA vaults are draining. COMEX vaults are swelling. China about to brrrrt to buy commodities. Interesting times!
 
There's always been a shortage, just masking it through the futures market.

In India, they were importing and MELTING so much gold, they had to come up with a ponzi scheme.

They got the population to deposit their gold in exchange for interest.

The gold is then melted and resold into the market.

It's fractional reserve banking.
 
I asked Rick Rule about the vaulting of the PSLV silver:



The 4 entities in my previous post are all competing for a limited supply of London Good Delivery silver bars.
 
I wrote an article about the state of the silver market and the new #silversqueeze 2.0 efforts:

 
I wrote an article about the state of the silver market and the new #silversqueeze 2.0 efforts:


"COMEX shorts won't be able to play completely naked (hedged only with LBMA paper) after July."

Good old naked shorts. A time honored tradition in the metals markets.

"The LBMA's position is that every troy ounce of metal in their vaults is free float - including allocated metal owned by ETFs, central banks and anyone else. Yikes."

Yikes, indeed. Do we still trust PSLV?

"This will leave COMEX shorts exposed to high risk of not being able to cover short positions. Either the COMEX shorts will have to find unobtanium or unwind their shorts."

Failure to deliver. My personal hypothesis has long been that when a FTD arises, it is settled with a little bit of paper premium. In other words, instead of delivering the physical metal, they deliver the promised price + some extra money (bribe).

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... Yikes, indeed. Do we still trust PSLV? ...

PSLV uses the Royal Canadian Mint to custody their silver. Supposedly all or almost all of their silver is stored in vaults in Canada, not in the LBMA system. I have not yet been able to get a definitive answer on this point though.
 
Looks like only about a dollar's worth of instant gratification. I'm more interested in the longer term effects.
 
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