The Cleanest Dirty Shirt

It is hard to believe that this tiny little under priced, battered and abused paper silver market is important enough for collusion by the big banks, as well as the government.

The agitation can come from many things. From ‘known knowns’, like subprime or student loan defaults - to the unimaginable or trivial, like some upper air disturbance or a media driven accident that turns violent.

The next generation will look back at the current period with utter astonishment. The archives will be riddled with debates and all manner of euphemisms for what led to the collapse of the world’s first and last fiat reserve currency.

...backed by an amorphous construct - one that it is powerful and hostile. It is mathematically impossible to repay both official and unofficial debt without collapsing the system that manufactures it.

From domestic divisions to geopolitical tensions and hot spots boiling over - the confusion was palpable. There were too many places to look for blame. Too many contributing causes.

Whether imposed by authority or by accident, a true banking holiday would make the value of necessities skyrocket in price relative to the sudden supply shortage.

To measure a ‘return’ with anything other than ounces at this stage in the game is absurd.

It may have arisen from humanity - human systems - but finance has morphed so far beyond anything humane that it is unrecognizable. It is other-worldly

Some have pointed out that this marks the end of the “petro-dollar” - and a foreshadowing of the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency

The word “regulation” has become a euphemism for control and the infestation of concentrated power and wealth.