Silver At Escape Velocity, As Another ECB Intervention Desperately Needed

We apologize for this most recent silver update, but it is rather exhilarating to watch the main Tri-Party repo clearer, and Fed's pet bank squirm. Silver is now above $32.70 as the unleashed squeeze is claiming victims left and right, and the metal is up 7% from yesterday's low. Jamie: it may be time to shelve those dividend plans for a year or two but at least you got your bonus you sly dog, you. As a reminder, margin calls in silver, and they will be, ahem, sizable, commence at 3pm Eastern.

And in other news, the half life of ECB bond monetization interventions is now a few hours. ECB - meet SNB.

Comments

[schoolsout]

giddy up!

[A Nanny Moose]

wait for it....

[flacon]

Come on little pony!

[MarketTruth]

<insert "Its On Like Donkey Kong" photo here>

[jus_lite_reading]

I've got a silver coin, if you've got a plot of land, a horse, a plow and a fist full of dollahs!

[CPL]

For what?  For silver to actually be valued properly for once? 

If it were in the 70 bucks range I would be screaming "back that truck up".  Right now it's still under valued by around 35%.  It would be the equivalent of people buying money at a 35% discount.

[johnQpublic]

Refer to Franklin Roosevelt's August 9, 1934 Executive Order 6814:

"By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 and of all other authority vested in me, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby require the delivery of all silver situated in the continental United States on the effective date hereof, by any and all persons owning, possessing, or controlling any such silver, and do hereby require any and all persons owning, possessing, or controlling any such silver to deliver the same in the manner, upon the conditions and subject to the exceptions herein contained, such action being in my judgment necessary to effectuate the policy of the Silver Purchase Act of 1934. . . . Section 2. Silver required to be delivered..–There shall be delivered in accordance with the terms of this order all silver situated in the continental United States on the effective date hereof, except silver falling within any of the following categories so long as it continues to fall thereunder:

(a) Silver coins, whether foreign or domestic;

(b) Silver of a fineness of .8 or less, which has not entered into industrial, commercial, professional, artistic, or monetary use;

(c) Silver mined, after December 21, 1933, from natural deposits in the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof: Provided, however, That so much of such silver so mined in the continental United States on or before the effective date of this order which shall not have been deposited with a United States mint tinder the proclamation of December 21, 1933, shall, if processed to a fineness greater than .8 within 75 days from the effective date of this order, be delivered in accordance with this order, not later than 90 days from the effective date hereof, or if processed to a fineness greater than .8 after 75 days from the effective date of this order, be delivered within 15 days thereafter in accordance with this order;

(d) Silver held for industrial, professional, or artistic use and unmelted scrap silver and silver sweepings in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate 500 fine troy ounces belonging to any one person;

(e) Silver owned on the effective date hereof by a recognized foreign government, foreign central bank, or the Bank for International Settlements;

(f) Silver contained in articles fabricated and held in good faith for a specific and customary use and not for their value as silver bullion; or

(g) Silver held under a license issued in accordance with Section 6 hereof.

Section 3. Time and place of delivery..–The silver required to be delivered here under shall be delivered not later than 90 days from the effective date hereof to the United States mint nearest to the place where the silver is situated immediately prior to delivery: Provided, That such silver temporarily falling within the exempt categories enumerated in Section 2, shall be delivered at the end of 90 days from the effective date hereof, or 15 days after the time when it ceases to fall within such categories, whichever date is later. Any person acquiring ownership, possession, or control of silver required to be delivered under this order after 75 days from the effective date hereof, shall deliver such silver within 15 days of such acquisition.

SECTION 4. Amount returnable for silver..–The silver herein required to be delivered shall be coined into standard silver dollars, or otherwise added to the monetary stocks of the United States in accordance with the proclamation, bearing the same date as this order, relating to the coinage of silver, and there shall be returned therefor in standard silver dollars, silver certificates, or any other coin or currency of the United States, the monetary value of the silver so delivered (that is, $1.2929+ a fine troy ounce), less a deduction of 61 8/25 percent thereof for seigniorage, brassage, coinage, and other mint charges, as provided in such proclamation; that is, the amount returnable for the silver delivered in accordance herewith shall be an amount equal to 50+ .– a fine troy ounce, which amount is not less than the fair value, at the time of this order, of the silver required to be delivered hereunder as determined by the market price over a reasonable period terminating at the time of this order.

Section 5. Reimbursement of costs..–The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay all necessary costs, actually incurred, of the transportation of such silver and standard silver dollars, silver certificates, and other coin or currency of the United States, including the cost of insurance, protection, and such other incidental costs as may be reasonably necessary. Persons desiring reimbursement of such costs shall submit their accounts on voucher forms which may be obtained by writing to the Treasurer of the United States, Washington, D.C.

Section 6. Licenses..–The Secretary of the Treasury, subject to such regulations as he may prescribe, acting directly or through such agency or agencies as he may designate, shall issue licenses authorizing the withholding of silver which the Secretary of the Treasury, or such agency as he may designate, is satisfied

(a) is required for legitimate and customary use in industry, profession, or art by a person regularly engaged in such industry, profession, or art or in the business of processing silver or furnishing silver therefor;

(b) has been imported for reexport; or

(c) is required to fulfill an obligation to deliver silver in such amount to a third person, incurred or assumed by the applicant on or before the effective date of this order; Provided, That at the date of the application, the applicant owns such silver or holds the obligation of another to deliver to him such silver.

The Secretary of the Treasury may, with the approval of the President, issue licenses authorizing the withholding of silver for purposes deemed to be in the public interest and not inconsistent with the purposes of the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 and of this order.

Section 7. Deliveries in fulfillment of obligations or to licensees.–No person required to deliver silver owned by him or in his possession or control shall be deemed to have failed to comply with the provisions of this order, if such silver is delivered in fulfillment of an obligation incurred or assumed by such person on

[quasimodo]

Fuck that noise

[Pemaquid]

One of the JPM turds.  Anyone got a few feet of rope?

[johnQpublic]

i actually posted it as a warning to why you need to get physical and hide the stuff

never trust the government not to try and reach inyour pocket....and not just in tax season

surprised to get 8 junks so far...unless they are junking the premise

i've got mine and am getting more

and i've got the other pm(lead) to back it up if anyone comes a-callin

[Pemaquid]

Oh!  So sorry!

[born2bmild]

JQP may not just be whistling dixie: http://crisisboom.com/2011/02/16/government-gold-silver-confiscation/

[johnQpublic]

that 2000 dolar figure is the same number my 'inside' guy mentioned, but i thought it just had to be bullshit...and there it is again..

nice link...ty

did you catch my link yesterday to the Washington state law that will track all pm sales in excess of 100 dollars?

purchaser/seller take all info that you can think of minus bra size...fingerprints,ssn,dl number,address,height,weight...no shit, google it or find link on jeff rense website

i put up a craigslist add for ameros and got three responses...try it

i did philadelphia craigslist, offering price asked for any amero coins...request scans to filter out bs spammers

[nmewn]

G/S ratio @ 42.53 and falling...I love it when a plan comes together.

[Forgiven]

Government Silver Thief meet copper cladded lead hollow point.  Discussion over.

[Blank Reg]

Hear, hear.

[Blank Reg]

Hear, hear.

[dogbreath]

blah blah blah

[Hugh G Rection]

bittersweet...

The validation of what most of us have known is nice, and the gain on the silver I have purchased is also nice, but I was hoping JPM could keep kicking the can down the road awhile.  I need more, MORE! 

Damnit Blythe you need to go balls deep with the shorts! Monkeyhammer this shit back down to 30 so I can load the truck again.

[phil silver]

Who put the PM in JPM?

Silver Bulls you have my permission to remove it.

You won't catch me with my trousers down. 

[natty light]

Phil Silver

great posting name

[phil silver]

Thanks, my friend.

Keep it safe.

[txapela]

please, dear god.

don't let silver crash.

and friday expirations to set in.

so that i can make a shitload of money on my miners come this biutiful monday.

[Henry Chinaski]

Tuesday.

[Cognitive Dissonance]

Correct.

Monday is "Washington's Birthday" per the NYSE.

http://www.nyse.com/about/newsevents/1176373643795.html

[tmosley]

That's just a conspiracy theory.

No such thing as a "bank holiday".

;)

[txapela]

well. fuck.

i forgot about president's day. i work on monday.

[Triggernometry]

tmosley- I almost bought 100 pieces yesterday, then recalled some of your thoughts on price fluctuations due to contract expirations, and figured it might be best to wait a week or two. Any thoughts?

[unky]

options expire on february 23rd and futures on february 28nd, hmm?

i also want to buy next week and would appreciate suggestions here, (by the way i want to buy in €, so consider the €/$)

[tmosley]

Read Terd Fergison's blog.  It appears that other things are afoot now in the silver markets, and that the traditional telegraphing and price suppression mechanisms are breaking down.  Namely, the large number of people planning on standing for delivery has rendered it impossible for the cartel to sell any more unbacked shorts without screwing themselves further.

I will be buying next week, but I don't really care about price anymore, as I have already established a strong portfolio.  If I were buying for the first time using a large amount of savings, I would cost average my way in starting IMMEDIATELY, and then buy all dips until I was out of money.  If I were significantly expanding here, I would cost average, buying half now, and half on the next largish dip.  I don't like buying when the price is going up like this, as there is an increased likelihood for major pullbacks.  The fundamental picture here is so strong, and the rumors so pervasive that I would be willing to violate those rules at this time (and buy the fucking spike).  I just wouldn't go all in at this point.  For a regular monthly investment, I just ignore the price.  It's going higher, and you should only be increasing your stash by about 1% a month, if you are already heavily invested as I am.

For a relatively small purchase like that (100 oz), Id say that you don't really need to worry too much about this spike--you've only lost a couple hundred bucks, about 6 fewer oz.  If this is a big portion of your savings you are converting, then I would cost average, buying a high enough number to get the best price/avoid taxes/avoid shipping, and wait for a dip to buy the rest.  If this is "chump change", ie the amount you would normally put aside in a given month, I would say just go ahead and buy it now.

Hopefully that makes sense.

[New_Meat]

tm:

"...buy the fucking spike..."

Nice turn of phrase.  Do you think it will catch on around here? ;-)

- Ned

[Triggernometry]

tmosley-

Thanks, your knowledge and insight are always appreciated. Just started buying pm's last year, still expanding my stores. My portfolio is solid, all tangible goods: food, water, filtration, textiles, pm's, cold steel, and copper coated lead to put in it.

[DoChenRollingBearing]

The Bearing, on vacation in Costa Rica chimes in re tmosley:

+ $31.50

If you do not yet have a ´comfortable´ position (physical only) yet, dollar averaging in is great advice.  Start NOW!

I would advise that even stronger re gold.

EDIT: Disclosure, I have enough gold and silver, at least for now.

[MrBoompi]

The way I see it, even if you don't buy the dip you're still paying 65 cents for something that should be worth at least a dollar.

[IQ 145]

 The Silver market has a fourteen day cycle; wait exactly two weeks.

[StychoKiller]

Next Tuesday is also "Birthington's Washday!" :>D

[lieutenantjohnchard]

no need for apologies. silver bulls are entitled to a group hug every now and then.

[TheGreatPonzi]

Silver is at 32.850 now. 

[jus_lite_reading]

Only silver bullets can take down giant Morgue Vampires...

With that said, I have a dream, that all Zerohedgers become the new rulers of the world!

[Mr Lennon Hendrix]

MUAH AH HAHAHAAAAAA!

[Cash_is_Trash]

Except Robo and Harry, they only spit shit about the inevitable rise of real money.

Fuckin'  CME is moving the goal posts again.

[tmosley]

And a few others...

[dogbreath]

I would like to be Tom Bombadilo from The Lord of the Rings.  Older than the hills.

[H. Perowne]

Ground control, to Jamie Dimon

My shorts are dead, there's something wrong

[bernorange]

Can you hear me Jamie Dimon?

Can you hear me Jamie Dimon?

[Arthor Bearing]

Blythe Masters is blue and there's nothing I can doooooo

[flacon]

There they are sitting in a tin can. Faaaaar above reality. 

[Yancey Ward]

My face is turning blue, and there's nothing I can do.

[Bananamerican]

silver's ...floa-ting in a most-a pe-cul-i-ar waa-aay

[ApplesConspiracy]

And those bars look very different to daaaay

[Blank Reg]

This major Ben to ground control, I'm stepping throu.....AGHHH!!

[It is a bargin ...]

Go look for Blythe

And hope The Bernank is with youuuuuu...

[malikai]

Silver surges.

Combine this with copper tumbling and the storm clouds are getting very close for JPM.

[jobs1234]

What is Ben saying to himself right now?

"Mission Accomplished"?

[born2bmild]

I think he's saying "Bring me my trolls." : https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d88e9d660336be91552...

[Mr Lennon Hendrix]

"We're all out of ink, Timmah!  We need more ink!"  Ben said while he banged on his printer.

Timmah was in the other room busy trying to short silver.  He had been up all night drinking red bull trying to keep a lid on the metal.  He let out a yelp of desperation.  "Timmah!"

Just then the phone rang.  Timmah answered.  It was Blythe.

"Timmah you little snake you've been a bad boy."

"Timmah?"

"Mommy is done playing games now.  Tell Ben I am moving to Puetro Rico to live with my man servent Jeeves."

"Timmah...."

"I have to, my time here is done.  There is no room for me and my silver shorts anymore...unless you want to see my silver shorts.  Do you want to see my silver shorts?"

Timmah shook his head, "Timmah."

"Come on Timmah...I have a silver bikini too."

"Eh, Timmah...Timmak."  Even Timmah was disgusted.

"Just tell Ben!"  She slammed down the phone and took a long drag of her cigerette.  "Jeeves, fetch me my silver dildo.  Mommy's horny."

"Coming!"

Back at the Treehouse Timmah informed Ben of the news.  Ben was arm deep in the printer.  "Great, just great!  First the printer was out of ink, now it jams, and Blythe quits.  Just great!"

With that, the lights on the printer started flashing, and it revved on.  "Timmah!"  Timmah said triumphantly.

"Ok, well get back on the PPT and try to keep everything in line.  I will call Dimon and inform him his number 2 has fled."  Ben walked to the phone, but not before pouring himself a coke and rum.

[faustian bargain]

about two-thirds of the way through your text, and... <shudder>

[Dr. Sandi]

You've made it live for me, JimiJohn.

I can see this playing inside my head and it's fascinating and spooky.

So when's the DVD coming out?

[StychoKiller]

I'd be willing to spend one Silver Eagle for a DVD of that "Reality Show!" :>D

[JW n FL]

by born2bmild
on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 12:14
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[JW n FL]

Get Paid to be a TROLL!!!!

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[Hephasteus]

Fuck YO IANNA RESERVED NIGGA!!!!

[fockewulf190]

Betcha Stuxnet International Ltd lands the contract...leading to a buyout from an unknown shell company based in the Caymans, and then everyone promptly disappears  within a few weeks from the radar.

[TerraHertz]

Well lookee thar...

https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AMC/6CS/RTB220610/listing.html

under the tab: Interested Vendors List, there is

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of recent fame for being totally hacked by Anonymous, and having many, many things stolen from their servers.

I have a dream... that someday a database of the names, nics and home addresses of all the paid shills will turn up on rapidshare or somewhere.

Next best dream would be JPMorgue's email archive, something like the CRU event.

If the trolls have any sense, they'll demand to be paid in silver pieces.

[Hook Line and S...]

This is great news. Note: there is an assumption that the web will by up and running so that the trolls may do their trolling.

[Amish Hacker]

To jobs1234: what Ben is saying to himself right now is, "Release the Kraken!"

Oh, wait, he tried that already...

[Cognitive Dissonance]

The Silver Bullet is out of control. May Blythe rest in pieces.

[CD]

The sound of inevitability, Ms. Masters...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5m1A7zoIcc

[thetruth]

+1

[Arthor Bearing]

Resistance is NOT futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, We're not a bunch of underachievers, we're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're gonna get fired up about the real things, the things that matter, creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN59H4ZKVpY (Alex Jones in the movie Waking Life)

[faustian bargain]

Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

[Cognitive Dissonance]

Popular (as well as obscure) cultural references and ZeroHedge were made for each other.

[DoChenRollingBearing]

+ 2.71828

[Hulk]

e gads!

[Attitude_Check]

Pretty common log you have there...

[darkaeye]

That's irrational

[bania]

I have this vision of Jamie and Blythe in a bunker, each taking a cyanide capsule from a silver pillbox... paging WB7?

[FeralSerf]

Due to circumstances beyond their control, metallic silver boxes are no longer available.  Paper silver boxes may still be available though.

[Amish Hacker]

We also have a very nice line of tungsten boxes.

[IQ 145]

 Hey that's neat.

[IQ 145]

 Hey that's neat.

[IQ 145]

 Hey, that's neat. Nice visual.

[IQ 145]

 sorry, I don't know what my browser is up to now.

[byukid]

I might cry from how beautiful this is.

[LongSoupLine]

Blythe - "Did anyone get the plate on the margin call truck that just ran me over?!"

[NotApplicable]

KEISER 1

[UGrev]

^Thread winner :-)

[SRV - ES339]

King Max I of America!

[cbaba]

Buy Silver, Buy Gold, CRash JP Morgan..

[philgramm]

Unlikely that JPM will crash.  Remember they have money printing power as part of the private FED.  But we can definitely expose the emperor for not wearing clothes by buying silver and gold.  Peace be to all my gold/silver bugs.  Tis a beautiful sight to behold:-)

[Andy_Jackson_Jihad]

So true.  I never understood how you could crash a bank that can go get freshly printed money to pay a premium to not deliver.

If the public finally awakens and demands money backed by PMs the JP Morgues of the world will have already made off with all the real assets purchased with printed money while suckers still traded with it. 

They will still be around when the dust settles unless some rouge CIA agent has been compiling the names of every wallstreet manager, puppet master and Rothschild schill across the globe to be eliminated.  I'm not very confident of that.

[darkaeye]

A very warm and soothing thought though.  Thanks for the image. 

[uranian]

i thought we'd maybe see a 32 something close today, looking for 33 something now!

[BanksterSlayer]

Wouldn't it be great to close the weekend at Masonic $33 just before a holiday to a Masonic leader?

[I Am The Unknow...]

side bet for bragging rights that we close at $33.00 at 1:30 pm EST?  How about $33.33?

[razorthin]

$33 looks to be the short-term target.

[alien-IQ]

short term as in "by lunch time" yes.

[JLee2027]

Yup

[unky]

i think u missed a zero

[takeaction]

This is amazing.   $32.83....what a run today. 

[Gene Parmesan]

What's amazing is that the word "silver" doesn't show up once on the wsj.com front page.

[unky]

it better be not  until i buy some more on monday, fortunately the € strengthend a little bit against the dollar, hope that it will last until monday

[Dr. Porkchop]

It will hit $100 oz and they'll still be calling it a barbarous relic or a in a bubble. Some people refuse to take off the blinders. I read a blog by a Canadian who is right on with his real estate calls, but he calls silver 'fools bullion' and at the start of the year was telling people to sell gold, they were lucky to have a good run, but now should get into corporate bonds!

[trav7777]

Metals had a 20 year period of doing jackshit and the entire structure of prudent market behavior was shitcanned in favor of share price ponzis.  Nobody became a .gold millionaire.

I, too, have noticed a lot of MSM derision of metals.  It is because if the metalheads are correct, the entire institution of what MSM market commentators do is at an end.  The MSM people most probably have missed this boat but more fundamental is the fear of what the implications of a PM price boom are.  We're already seeing the consequences to the exchanges in terms of volume, to the institutional funds due to outflows, etc.  The entire wall street complex of sucking in mainstreet money and encouraging main street daytrading is finished.

WTF are these people going to do for a living if nobody is trading and the market returned to a climate of fundamentals and - gasp - dividends?  You see the same types of derogation against solid dividend payer stocks.  The commentators act as if these are for dumbass grammas, whereas the real traders are all in NFLX.

Face facts, the .com boom BUILT the entire careers of these people and CNBC and Bloomberg and the whole financial news complex. 

[Thorny Xi]

+10  We're the "Cash Out Generation"

[divinetechnique]

this canadian, while right on RE, must be a fool.  a greater fool.  the funniest shit was when he told gold bugs to quit reading doomer blogs and then someone replied saying his blog WAS a doomer blog. 

[SRV - ES339]

Poor Garth... he was a (Conservative) Member of Parliament several years ago, and is firmly entrenched in the anti gold mindset.

He does "pull back the curtain" from time to time with some great (inside) insight on the conservative government's sell out to the international corporate cabal... he fought like hell to stop the bullshit (very stealthy) changes designed to pump up the R/E bubble to unimaginable levels (much worse than the US bubble) and was dumped for his trouble.

Believe it or not, they managed to keep pumping (and lying) until just recently, and Canada is about to take a very, very big hit... it will not end well.

For the curious... he's a fun read.

http://www.greaterfool.ca/

[pirea]

70% of new condos built in Coal Harbour are bought by overseas investors at over $1,000,000 average value and are empty, as a real estate reserve. Vancouver is not your average american town, the price of RE is not driven by $38,000 average local income. Move along with your predictions.

[Bay of Pigs]

I guess we should take it from you that there is no bubble when it comes to Vancouver RE?

Okay, put your head back into the sand. 

[L_Gobbo]

Not on the front page (yet) but they do have a very entertaining article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110218-709774.html

The money quote:

It's [the silver price] benefiting from optimism on the global economy," said Ralph Preston, market analyst at Heritage West Financial.

[Zero Govt]

fuking hilarious quote... CNBC sure to have Ralph Preston on as a "Silver expert" guest ...they billed some ex-Fed crone as a "Gold expert" couple of months ago, the prat knew jack-shit and just bluffed his way through ...talk about the TV audience being "dumbed down" just doesn't give credit to the muppet medias 'experts' having IQ's in single digits!

[Gene Parmesan]

Insanity.

[EscapeKey]

It's a good thing those Iranian ships were allowed through the Suez, eh?

[silvertrain]

 Long Whites metal Detectors!!!

[NotApplicable]

And not 2 hours ago, I went to my dealer to get a tube of Eagles, but he was out of town until tomorrow at a coin show.

Figures...

[The Disappointed]

I hate when that happens.

[DaBernank]

I'm elated for all the physical Silver I own and the miners. I'm pissed I didn't pull the trigger on my shopping cart at APMEX 4 days ago.

[They_Live]

Know the feeling, parabolic bitchez!

[unky]

i sold from my kitco pool account few days ago in order to buy real stuff but now i didnt receive the money on time, what a fuck

[curbyourrisk]

JPMorgan doesn't pay margin calls...  They give margin calls.

You think Jamie Dimon gonna be pushed around by someone saying...pay me??  He is just gonna look over his shoulder and say "Ben.....get to work"

[Mr Lennon Hendrix]

A lot of good that has done him.

[Misean]

I wonder if Blythe's cloud has a silver lining...and if so, did she short it?

[silvertrain]

 Silver Gold Ratio has closed to  42 , thats whats up...

[Oh regional Indian]

Always on a friday! yay! TGIF! etc...

This will be a breakout that will set the next low. A much higher low, for sure.

What then? 7 days is an eternity.

Like watching a gargantuan metamorphosis in slow motion. And still exciting! 

Seat belts on. Afterburners can only fire in short bursts.

ORI

http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/truth-about-america-truth-about-us/

[Harmonious_Diss...]

$5 days coming soon, so sayeth the bears

[NotApplicable]

Only at the Crimex, or perhaps SLV, or some other paper tiger.

There will never, ever be any physical supply at that price again.

[Harmonious_Diss...]

$5 Increases! These "bears" :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66R4U-Eybs

:)

[ZeroHour]

I think he meant "$5 moves" per day.

[MrBoompi]

If silver ever went to $5 I would sell everything else I own, take out loans for as much money as the banks would give me, max out my credit cards, and buy as much silver as I could.

[NOTW777]

how? how, can cnbc not be covering this.

they just posted a commodity board with oil, gold and no silver

where is kass

[NOTW777]

they are covering - soup

[NotApplicable]

They even had a guy on earlier talking about a platinum/palladium convergence trade. Not with each other mind you, but with gold.

[trav7777]

the production dynamics are too dissimilar.  Why is it that these chartmonkeys ignore the real world?

I could conceive of Pd/Pt price convergence, but both really ought to trade at far higher than present and substantially higher than gold just given that their yearly production is 6% of gold's and Pt has been in supply deficit (with Russia selling surplus stocks to make up the diff) for some time now.

[DoChenRollingBearing]

Great observation trav.

Be diversified and buy them all!

Au, Ag, Pt, Pd

[kadriana288]

I'm curious to see if the Fast Money guys talk about it.

[overmedicatedun...]

so much news is positive for PM's it's a world gone mad by elites who have plundered the wealth of nations,,subconcious understanding of the banksters and gov corruption world wide is now exploding in the ME and in our mid west states wisconsin view of things to come:

" from Paas board:Silver just blew through the roof without even stopping for any noticable correction. When the buying frenzy does stop, it holds its current level solid. I haven't seen any analysis of why this is happening, but I have a feeling a lot of people are watching the situation in Wisconsin and are starting to see the beginnings of America's "Greek Moment." The union protests and political battles are bringing home the reality of our political instability coming to a head. States are bankrupt, state workers and union thugs are unwilling to compromise and things could get ugly. Interest in precious metals was sharply renewed right when all this started happening."

[qussl3]

Cat is out of the bag.

Countdown till retail starts piling in has begun.

Will be very interesting to see how TPTB finally kills this PM rally, a new reserve may be inevitable, or perhaps *gasp* some variant of Freegold.

[Larry Darrell]

LOOOOOOOOOOONG way from "retail" piling in.  Especially into physical.  Went by my coin shop to pick up a few more eagles over lunch.  Only 1 person in the store besides me, and he was SELLING his gold.  I didn't say a word.

Although the guy who works there everyday actually remembered me now, as he noted I was back buying again.  I should probably find a new store......don't wanna become "recognized."

[jus_lite_reading]

Listen guys, I know you all have got your dicks up over this little increase in silver, so what will you do when silver makes $5 gains in a single day? You will bust a vein!

Captain A-Jax over and OUT! YEEE HAWW!

[unky]

seriously, i cannot concentrate on my work while this truely parabolic rise is going on

[jus_lite_reading]

Why work? If you bought silver last year, you could retire...

[unky]

unfortunately i am in my 20ies and didnt even had a chance to gather some money. however i convinced my parents and they may retire soon

[BanksterSlayer]

Unky, I did the same thing with my parents! They lost three homes in what we now know was illegal Fraudclosre by Wells Fargo ... but they did manage to buy silver at $21. And I bought some too at $17 ... but am now using the profits to finance my own fraudclosure law suit against --guess which bank-- Chase. What a hoot!

[tmosley]

That's what I'm thinking.  It is hard for me to get anything done today.  I found myself checking kitco on my phone during a meeting this morning.

If I didn't absolutely love my work, I would be looking to retire about now. 

[Red Neck Repugnicant]

Douche bag alert!

[SRV - ES339]

... been there... done that... lol!

[Dr. Richard Head]

One can only hope for more vein busting. 

[e_u_r_o]

gold lagging hard

how fkn long will EUR stay up?

[jus_lite_reading]

Longer than you can stay short... so long as Dr. Deficit aka BEnron aka Ben Shalom continues to print, the EURO goes higher.

The EU is disintegrating, but BEN is printing faster than the decline of the EU!

[DosZap]

And Blythe is making a move!