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

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…