The history of silver will be hard to explain, mostly because of the hired bullshit. The analysts, the economists, the television experts—they’ll all have charts and theories after the fact. But none of them will explain what it felt like when an entire generation suddenly realized that the game was rigged and that a forgotten metal sitting in vaults and coffee cans was about to become the center of the financial universe.
My central memory of this time will hang on one or five or maybe forty nights staring at glowing charts at three in the morning, watching silver rip through levels that had stood for decades. Phones buzzing. Screens flashing. Old stackers laughing like escaped lunatics while hedge funds and bullion banks scrambled to explain what was happening.
There was madness in every direction. If not on the COMEX, then in Shanghai. If not in London, then on some obscure dealer’s website with every product stamped SOLD OUT. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that after years of ridicule and manipulation, we were finally winning.
And that, I think, was the handle—the sense of inevitable victory. Not in any military sense. We didn’t need that. The fundamentals would simply prevail. The deficits, the shortages, the industrial demand, the years of underinvestment—it was all too much. We had all the momentum. We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
And someday, years from now, you’ll stand on a hill overlooking the wreckage of the old financial order, and with the right kind of eyes you’ll be able to see the high-water mark—that place where silver finally went vertical, where the last doubters capitulated, and where a generation-long bull market reached its savage and glorious peak.
@BritHugoboom@honeyNonABG Social media didn't exist back then. Now the playing field is all messed up because people have virtual access to what they wouldn't normally have access to. Everyone is in a constant state of window shopping.
@conservativejj1@lowstakesdre@unitedBananas88 Generator or generator plug? I was talking about a panel only. But yeah depending on how long of a run and how it had to be run. Can add up
@Rhinopirate75@middle_class_us CPI is a useless metric for the vast majority of working class people. People maybe get a 3% raise while losing an additional 25% or more of their paycheck to living expense increases.