[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'S')ilver will the story of 2026

[Armageddon]

140% silver increase in 2025 was just the opening act. Going much higher in 2026. $100 by the end of Q1.

[theluckycountry]

Thankfully the precious metals have taken a pause, hardly a retraction, just a well needed pause. As they say, nothing goes straight up unless it's a CNSA rocket launch. I doubt it will double again from here this year. It's played it's catchup against the G-S ratio and made up it's inflation gains. All the rest is just speculation by the investment community that has this entrenched bubble thinking they can't seem to move past. Certainly the stockmarket in the US is in a bubble, a HUGE one too. Even logical stocks like Caterpillar have gone off the reservation. It's price has doubled in the last 6 months, Doubled! The last time it did that was back in 2006-7 as a response to peakOil. Then it dropped in the GFC but quickly came back to retain it's new value. Money printing, it has to go somewhere. But it's not like mining has doubled in the last year, there is not huge demand suddenly for D10's. Quite the opposite probably.

CAT really took a leg up with Covid (money printing). It's pretty simple, you double the amount of money in circulation and a dollar bill loses half it's value. The end result is that prices of everything double. And if they haven't doubled, then look at the size, it will be smaller, look at the quality, it will be cheaper. The FDA was going to classify McDonald's food as confectionery because of all the corn sugar in it. Then maccas put the pickle on the burgers and that tipped the balance. Honey Bees live on sugar. Do you think you're a Honey Bee?

Oh, why did CAT go up? AI of course, or so they suggest.
Caterpillar Stock Is an Unlikely AI Play as Data Center Power Demand Surges
https://www.barrons.com/articles/caterp ... d-d13c13c9

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '1')40% silver increase in 2025 was just the opening act. Going much higher in 2026. $100 by the end of Q1.

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '1')40% silver increase in 2025 was just the opening act. Going much higher in 2026. $100 by the end of Q1.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
')I don’t have a 401k.

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
')I don’t have a 401k.

[theluckycountry]

Running your own business is certainly the way to get ahead in life, it's either that or you're on a mousewheel and praying your 401k doesn't collapse like it did in 2008. When I began buying Gold around 2004 I knew a guy who owned a string of laundromats. He was a Gold Bug too, Krugerrands of all things. He wasn't so much preparing for a collapse in the paper system but was just hiding wealth. A hell of a lot of cash came through his doors, it was all cash in fact. He taught me a lot, especially about writing off tax on high ticket items.

401k and the like are mandated by law for the little people, the worker bees. They think they have been given some free money with them but every cent was theirs to begin with, the employer contributions simply made up out of the wage increases they would have got had they not been shafted! And now all that money is in the hands of faceless men that dine at $1000 a plate restaurants. That pension money is there to make the rich richer as they access it NOW to push up share prices and build shell companies that inevitably vanish over night. How much pension money was siphoned off in the SPAC collapse? In the collapse of all the EV builders across the nation? In the write offs made by the shale bubble companies? In the dotcom bubble? Private pensions are a Joke and the Joke is on those counting on them being there through retirement years.



Silver was clearly the choice back in 2004, and has been for most of this ride. It's upside potential was vast. 50/50, Gold and Silver, that was the rule. I have some private superannuation money in an account, from the early 80's when I was still working for the man. But it's nothing and has hardly tripled in all this time. My early precious metals gains dwarfed it in just a couple of years.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
')I have enough PM’s to last 3 lifetimes.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'R')unning your own business is certainly the way to get ahead in life, it's either that or you're on a mousewheel and praying your 401k doesn't collapse like it did in 2008.

[theluckycountry]

What's the troll talking about? He doesn't even own any Gold, or Silver.
Wannabees pretending so they don't feel left out. Enjoy your 401k, while you can.

9.3 Million Americans Work Multiple Jobs To Make Ends Meet
That’s the daily reality for millions of Americans, for whom one job is no longer enough to pay rent, put food on the table and cover other expenses.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-fina ... -ends-meet

And they are the Lucky ones! The others who didn't plan for the future either are taking their tents and setting up camp wherever they can. What most people consider "their plan" for the future is actually the corporate world's plan for their future. They have little to no control over these funds, Oh they think they do, they can choose all manner of different programs, but these all put their life savings in the paper markets controlled by the Blob. They still talk about diversification like it's a magic spell. But who didn't take a big hit in the GFC? They all did because all the boats went down on that tide.

One of the Lies commonly believed is that 'they' won't let the system collapse because 'they' would lose too much. Behind this little bit of social engineering is the trope that bezos, Musk, et al actually consider their posted net worth as being their real net worth. It isn't, and they don't. Those figures are just their to instill confidence in the market, to make people believe that a $1.2 Trillion valuation for small car maker is acceptable. If Musk wasn't uber wealthy as claimed on the TV people might begin to think that valuation was a bit unreal

Their real wealth is derived by selling their share of these companies off as time passes, the simple fact that they couldn't sell it all and walk away without the company collapsing tells it all. So they are happy to pretend they are worth nearly a trillion dollars, they don't care. It's just another way of normalizing the ludicrous valuations and downplaying the ludicrous debts. So when the average Joe looks at his his 401k and sees a digital figure of $500,000 sitting there he adds this to the value of his home and considers himself rich too. And so he is, in the paper terms of a mad bubble economy at the end of greatest debt expansion the world has ever seen.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'W')hat's the troll talking about? He doesn't even own any Gold, or Silver.
Wannabees pretending so they don't feel left out. Enjoy your 401k, while you can.

[Armageddon]

Curious to see how PM’s react to the toppling of Maduro. We are in a global resource war and silver is just as vital as oil. The entire modern civilization requires silver to function. EV’s, solar panels, AI data bases, phones, iPads, etc. We are using 1.2B oz and only producing 850 million oz and this structural deficit will only get worse.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'C')urious to see how PM’s react to the toppling of Maduro. We are in a global resource war and silver is just as vital as oil. The entire modern civilization requires silver to function. EV’s, solar panels, AI data bases, phones, iPads, etc. We are using 1.2B oz and only producing 850 million oz and this structural deficit will only get worse.

[Armageddon]

I just stated facts. Nothing really to debate.

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'C')urious to see how PM’s react to the toppling of Maduro. We are in a global resource war and silver is just as vital as oil.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'I') just stated facts. Nothing really to debate.

[Armageddon]

That’s too stupid to even respond to

[Armageddon]

Next you’ll tell me that Venezuela isn’t about oil

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'T')hat’s too stupid to even respond to