There's all sorts of ins and outs with the markets in general, but these are different. The silver market is more prone to market manipulation. There's no CEOs, CFOs, etc. unlike a business it can't be driven into the ground and poof be gone tomorrow before you wake up. If you purchase physical precious metals, you have them in hand. Silver's on run right now, at the time I started writing this it it's up $1.33, and it's not even noon. There's plenty.
Gold is prone to price manipulation too, just as much as silver, and big time since decades now, I could name the libor scandal for a start
PMs, especially gold and silver, are the natural competitors to paper currency... So you get the idea, there's vitualy no limit to price manipulation ultimately, it's a matter of national security in the end. If paper currencies start to collapse and people rush to PMs as store of value, as alternative... The PMs price will magically collapse, as usual, so PMs are rendered as a less attractive alternative, that's the intent
Now there's a move on PMs yeah https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/epic-gold-market-follow-epic-stock-market-bubble
But I wouldn't be surprised to see it collapse all over again because reason
PMs price manipulation will end the day paper currency's reign is over
Problem is that we're entering the digital currency era
I neglected to mention that you were right in my other response. Hopefully other readers will stop by and take this in this information. I've done a lot of people too pick these up to supplement their savings or to guard against inflation. The United States Mint mints these to the tune of millions a year. (They do so with other metals as well.) Just sharing, for those who don't know. https://pic8.co/sh/2ittaQ.jpg
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