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While I agree the comex game for the last several decades has certainly capped the pm's rise, all you need to look at is the insane amount of paper thrown at it daily. I do believe that simply shifting to a gold/silver backed system has some downside too.
Whether you believe the stat that less than 1% of investors or the retail public own PM's is open to discuss. I think it is higher due to the last bubble popping in 2008. Many people piled into physical starting in fall '08. In silver's case is was much more affordable. That had the effect of taking gold along for the ride. During and including the run to $50 plenty of monster boxes were purchased. On the way back down some of that was liquidated due to the scheme to drive it down with billions of oz's of paper…thanks Bart!! (how does he even have a tv show let alone any sort of ratings??) I digress…
In short order we had a period of time where many more investors were faced with a choice…perceived wealth protection (that is another argument altogether) or HODL (whatever assets you have not including hard).
I have to think that many metals purchases were basically kept as an insurance policy. The numbers do not lie regarding paper vs. actuals on the "blowmex".
Switching to a gold/silver standard may risk creating yet another inequality of wealth distribution as whomever was racking and stacking suddenly, almost overnight, could potentially be the new 1%. Do we risk allowing our system to be re-set (totally agree it needs to be done) and peg it to another group of people who 'control' the underlying asset?
JPM had ZERO phys silver until 2011. They acquired a vault license in record setting time. Usually that process takes at least a year to properly apply and be granted a license to store it on premise. They were allowed to do all of it in less than 6 months. They have used the time between acquiring a vault and now to amass the largest physical above ground position ever. At least that is what the numbers tell.
I have to think that JPM does not do that unless an end-game is near. I have posited the system is being reset by stealth. Many procedural things have already indicated a massive change in money creation and mgmt is just beyond the horizon.
JPM's "Blythe and Jamie" show is what killed off actual price discovery on the same Sunday evening that we "got" OBL. It was also the crescendo of Hussein's birth certificate drama.
I have to think the plan is to scoop up any existing assets as part of a nationalization of the banking system. IMO this was done in 2008 however the appearance of a normal functional system is allowed to continue.
Since Ft. Knox was looted most likely in the late 80's it would seem rather "easy" to take over JPM's physical position. Goldman has a similar setup however to my knowledge it is nowhere near the size of JPM. Again most of these numbers are from a very suspect COT, COMEX and LBMA. We can only work with what we are given.
Unless that (complete takeover) is done I fear we will be doomed to repeat this situation again if we just up and decide to create a new 1% virtually overnight.
What do you think?
BTW this does sound simplistic but rest assured it is with several decades of experience. Coffee only for a few minutes!
What do you think?