Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘Money & Finance’

Authored by Greg Hunter via usawatchdog.com, · Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter (aka Mr. Gold) predicted that by March, silver would likely suffer a failure to deliver physical metal at COMEX. In other words, demand for physical silver will swamp the existing supply. The math is scary and simple, and Holter breaks it down, “The registered inventory at COMEX in silver is 86 million ounces. On the second day of March, there…

Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, · Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong warned in late December to be ready for the “Perfect Storm for Debt, Economy, War, Gold & Silver.”  · The rain and thunder started at the beginning of February, and the storm is just beginning.  Armstrong says, “This is where the volatility starts kicking in..." · "  I think Europe is so desperate for war. My concern with the Trump…

Authored by Matthew Piepenberg via VonGreyerz.gold, · On Friday, January 30, 2026, the world learned (or rediscovered) just how grotesquely rigged the paper gold and silver markets truly are. · The Great (Yet Familiar) Fall · Despite no change whatsoever in global supply and demand forces, silver went from a $120 near-high on Thursday to a $78 low on Friday, marking this as the largest single-day crash (35%) in the silver market in 44…

Alex Krainer · Only two weeks ago the TrendCompass report headline read, “Silver breaks to new all time highs.” The opening paragraph: “On Friday, 9 January COMEX silver futures closed at $79.34/tr.oz., slightly below the all-time high reached three days prior. Then this morning, with the silver price chart looking almost vertical, silver opened gap up, more than $4 higher than Friday’s close and is now trading at around…

Central banks have been buying bullion at a record clip because holding dollars has become a losing proposition · In the German writer Ernst Junger’s macabre vignette ‘Violet Endives’, a man walks into a gourmet shop where the salesman speaks in matter-of-fact fashion about the delicacies on display – human flesh – and embarks upon a long explanation about the art of preparation. The story is a commentary on a society that accepts…

Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance · Silver was up another 6% Wednesday morning this past week and traded at $91 an ounce. Whether or not we’re seeing a short squeeze or a blow-off top at this point is moot and irrelevant. To quote the dorky guy from 10 Things I Hate About You,“the sh\t hath hitteth the faneth”. · As I said about a week ago on a Twitter Spaces that I did with my friend Peter Schiff, I just had the feeling that the run-up in…

I’ve been analyzing this for the last 6 hours and this is VERY BAD. World silver production: ~800M ounces, BofA & Citi shorts: 4.4 BILLION. I’ve spent two decades in macro, and I thought I had seen it all. I WAS WRONG! By No Limits · Here’s what I uncovered: · What you’re looking at isn't just a large short position. · It’s a solvency event for the entire commodities complex. · Let’s break down the technicals of why BofA being short 1B…

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Vince Lanci, Publisher of GoldFix and Professor of Finance, to break down a major shift underway in the global monetary system. BRICS nations have launched a pilot for a new gold-backed settlement instrument known as “the Unit” – a wholesale mechanism designed to settle cross-border trade outside the U.S. dollar and the SWIFT system. While still early, the move…