/biz/ - Business and Finance

>>12467

She certainly is woman, or at least she is now.

Why is the OP image deleted?

>>12468

Whats going on with the pictures on here? every pic is being reduced in size to the point you cant even read what the fuck is written on them.

>>12472

>It's also being flooded by fomo newbies and goblin lovers.

4chan is also being flooded by fomo newbies and goblin lovers. This place is just comfy.

I am curious why the 8ch dns stopped working.

>>12475

You call that a dump? Get it back below $50, show me a Jewish Christmas miracle.

Merry Christmas!!

>>12490

I think the site is having image resizing issues again. Do you have a link for video?

>>12491

Sure.

Explanation for what may have happened this weekend.

🚨🚨MARGIN CALL🚨🚨

Is a Large Bullion Bank's Short Silver Position About to Be LIQUIDATED?

⚡️ MASSIVE $429M Call Option Placed on SILJ Moments Before Friday's Close!! ⚡️⚡️

⚡️Did a Bullion Bank Just Buy $429 MILLION in SILJ Silver Miner ETF Calls After Receiving a MARGIN CALL on its Naked Short Silver Position?? ⚡️

🔥Here's what we know:

🔥17 non-US banks were net short 43,084 COMEX silver contracts - (215.42 MILLION oz) prior to silver's parabolic move higher…and reportedly short HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of oz via the OTC derivatives market.

🔥On Christmas Day, the physical price of silver shot past $80/oz in Shanghai.

That afternoon, SilverTrade warned readers that if COMEX allowed US silver prices to chase Shanghai price setting into the $80's, it would immediately DETONATE the global bullion banks' derivative books.

🔥Once Globex trading resumed Christmas night, silver futures prices gapped higher from $72 to over $74.

The silver squeeze had begun.

🔥At 8:30 Friday morning, the first signs of major stress in the banking system appeared as TBTF banks tapped the Fed's Repo Facility for $17.251 BILLION in emergency liquidity.

🔥As trading progressed Friday, Silver Prices EXPLODED 11% higher on the day, from $71.03 up to $79.70. Silver CLOSED even stronger in Shanghai at $84.97!

🔥Late Friday afternoon, rumors bagan swirling through the market that a large bullion bank was unable to meet a massive MARGIN CALL it had just received over its naked short silver position.

⚡️This means the silver short position would be LIQUIDATED. Unrealized losses immediately MARKED TO MARKET.

🔥At exactly 3:52 pm EST Friday, someone bought $429 MILLION of Silver Miners ETF $SILJ Calls, the majority expiring in only 3 weeks- January 16, 2026.

🔥Only 8 minutes before the close, after silver had ALREADY soared to nearly $80/oz, someone placed a GARGANUTAN $429 MILLION BET on JUNIOR SILVER MINERS placing a huge rally within the next 3 weeks.

⚡️Let's put this number in perspective.

The ENTIRE MARKET CAP of SILJ is $2.67 Billion.

🔥A single entity placed a MASSIVE DIRECTIONAL $429 M BET ON THE SILJ SILVER JUNIOR MINERS ETF with a $2.67 B market cap THAT EXPIRES IN 3 WEEKS.

⚡️8 minutes before the close.

⚡️After a large bullion bank naked short silver reportedly received a margin call it couldn't meet over its silver short position.

🚨Knowing that it couldn't meet its end of day MARGIN CALL in 8 minutes- meaning its legacy silver short position would be⚡️ LIQUIDATED ⚡️the moment silver futures resume trading Sunday night - and KNOWING that liquidating its MASSIVE naked short silver position would cause the MOTHER OF ALL SHORT SQUEEZES, did this bullion bank attempt to save itself by placing a massively leveraged LONG BET on the SILJ Silver Junior Miners ETF?

🔥🔥Because this bank KNOWS that global silver prices are about to be MASSIVELY repriced higher as the bullion banks have lost control of the silver market, and their naked short silver positions are being FORCE LIQUIDATED??

These are the facts. Are we looking at a strange string of coincidences?

Or is a large bullion bank's legacy silver short position about to be LIQUIDATED the moment trading resumes Sunday night?

Make your own conclusion.

https://x.com/silvertrade/status/2005080752082317696

>>12489

Michael Yon, great video.

>>12490

Is the mic "issue" on Matt's end or Mike's do you think? There are so many guests with terrible mics on his channel. I wonder if he has a strange lisp or something.

he's back again

>>12496

And I didn't realize it wasn't related to pms

2026 will be the year silver shines very bright.

>The Imminent Western Silver Insolvency

>In 2024, the global demand for silver outstripped supply by approximately 4,600 tonnes (150 million ounces). It was the fourth consecutive year of a structural deficit that has already drained Western vaults of nearly 21,000 tonnes of metal.

>We are consuming 37,300 tonnes of silver annually while digging only 31,200 tonnes out of the ground. In any other era, price would rise to stimulate production. But this is where the "Old War" logic fails.

>Seventy-two percent of all silver is not mined for its own sake. It is a by-product, a chemical accident found in the ores of lead (30%), copper (26%), and gold (16%). This means silver supply is price inelastic. You cannot simply "turn on" a silver mine when the price hits $150. You must mine more copper or zinc to get the silver. And the West has decided it no longer wishes to do the dirty work of smelting either.

>This brings us to the "dirty dirt." There is a myth that because Mexico and Peru dig ore, the West possesses silver. This is a nonsense . What comes out of the Peru is a toxic sludge known as "concentrate."

>To be useful, this sludge must be smelted.

>Here is the choke point: China controls 60% of global copper smelting capacity and nearly 50% of refined zinc production.

>The West exports its raw earth to the PRC , and in doing so, hands over the keys to the periodic table.

>We are currently relying on China to refine roughly 60-70% of the silver that physically enters the global supply chain. This is not trade; it is a hostage situation. In 2024, China exported roughly 4,200 tonnes of refined silver to the West, a volume that almost exactly matches the Western structural deficit.

>If Beijing initiates a "Silent Siege" and restricts these exports by even 50%, the West does not face inflation. It faces a 2,100-tonne physical hole in its industrial throughput that no amount of recycling can fill.

>As our models show, a 25% curtailment creates an immediate double-digit deficit, forcing industrial rationing within twelve months. Period !

>The Hellscape Paradox

>The irony deepens when we consider the US chosen instrument of deterrence. The Pentagon has bet the farm on the "Hellscape" strategy

>THIS IS a plan to flood the Taiwan Strait with thousands of autonomous drones to deny the PLA access.

>It is a clever plan with a fatal flaw. Every one of those drones is a flying circuit board requiring 5N (99.999%) purity silver paste. The West consumes 13,000 tonnes of silver for industrial use annually, yet we have offshored the capacity to produce the ultra-high purity powder and paste required for advanced electronics.

>China produces over 80% of the solar and semiconductor supply chain materials.

>We are attempting to build a robotic kill chain using a metal that must be refined and chemically processed by the adversary. We are buying the rope from the hangman to strangle him, and we are paying him in a currency he is actively debasing.

https://nitter.net/ctindale/status/2006154153077436810

🇺🇸🇻🇪‼️🚨 AMERICA ATTACKS VENEZUELA!

The US has launched a military operation against Venezuela!

❗️🇺🇸🇻🇪 The White House officially admitted that the US is carrying out strikes on Venezuela

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2007366617865588943

>>12507

The geopolitical significance of this is the price of silver will likely jump on Sunday open. China has significant investments in Venezuela, and will not be happy that a US puppet has rendered them worthless. Venezuela was paying for these investments with crude oil.

Will China enact a 100% embargo on silver exports to the west in retaliation? Will they squeeze the rare earths?

It's exciting to see what happens Sunday afternoon.

>>12506

Seems to suggest that people of a particular economic stratum are starting to make moves, since most people won’t buy 1000 toz bars. In general a good sign for silver, since prices tend to get harder to manipulate as the perception of silver’s increased value becomes more consolidated.

>>12508

Won’t presume that you guys are following the Venezuela thing too closely - USA is scraping the bottom of it’s global goodwill wallet here. This is blatant gangsterism. Pretty sure this is going to accelerate the devaluation of the US dollar and probably much of western fiat (associates of USA), though I can’t be sure by how much. It was already pretty bad when they froze Russian assets, but acts that defy norms will lose trust for the institutions. People will opt out of those and into tangible assets.

Recovering gold from smartphones with crude technology. I appears that the chemicals used were only borax and nitric acid. The recovered over 34 grams of gold from around 200-300 smartphones.

I cannot upload the video, but I can give a link to the twitter source:

https://x.com/sciencegirl/status/2007343761253400875

>>12517

Welcome fren. I wish someone would nuke 4chan from orbit. I wish 8kun would fix the file size limit even more.

Bans are capricious and arbitrary because the rules are enforced by biased partisans, and abused by jannies and mods who disagree with the CONTENT of the post, then used bullshit excuses like "off topic".

The kidnapping of Maduro has definite implications for the price of silver because it effects China, who has billions invested in Venezuela.

I've mentioned it upthread.

I personally did not like or want the US to be doing regime change, but my sentiment is tempered by knowing what pieces of shit Maduro is. The situation in Venezuela was so bad, people ate the zoo animals.

The government tolerated extremely violent, armed criminals so long as they targeted people politically opposed to the government. Not unlike how Germany tolerates violent antifa, so long as they primarily attack AFD politicians and supporters.

Not unlike how Democrat run cities tolerate black criminals who primarily attack whites. I'm seeing a pattern here. Low grade civil war.

In any event, I expect to see the silver price jump when markets open Sunday. AIsian guy says that there is a programmed silver dump coming, Jan 8 because index funds will be reducing their silver allocation from 9% to 4%.

>>12519

I won't presume the source of your understanding of the Venezuelan issue, but I'm highly skeptical that the situation in Vemezuela was solely the fault of Maduro, if only because USA has responsibility over their sanctions imposed on Venezuela. Plus, I got a sense that many Venezuelans support him, which suggests that a lot of the English media coverage of the issue has been tainted with propaganda.

Again, I won't dispute your opinion based on information I may not have, and we agree that USA is certainly taking a dangerous step here, which I think is thinning this veneer of global order.

On the PM angle, apparently Venezuelan gold was frozen* by the bank of England some time ago based on what I think is a poor premise.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-is-venezuelas-gold-still-frozen-in-the-bank-of-england/

*edit: frozen instead of stolen, to be precise

The other pmg is reporting lots of dealers having supply issues. Keep an eye out for popular items out of stock and on backorder.

>>12519

I'd be more impressed if a link were provided to the source quote from the JP Morgan analysts.

>>12522

>The other pmg is reporting lots of dealers having supply issues. Keep an eye out for popular items out of stock and on backorder.

Worldwide. We went to an LCS last Monday and they had nothing smaller than 100oz bars other than higher premium 1oz coins.

I asked uncensored.ai how the bullion banks can roll silver shorts over and over.

>Silver short sales are repeatedly rolled over through a process called "naked short selling" and "roll-over" or "re-lending" of physical silver. Here's how it works:

>1. Naked Short Selling: A bank or hedge fund sells silver they don't own, betting the price will drop. They borrow the silver from another investor, sell it, and pocket the cash.

>2. Roll-Over: Before the settlement date (when they must return the silver), the bank buys back the same amount of silver at a lower price (if the price dropped) and sells it again, pocketing the difference. They never deliver the physical silver.

>3. Re-Lending: The bank lends the same silver to another short seller, who repeats the process. This creates a chain of "phantom" silver-silver that doesn't exist but is traded as if it does.

>4. SLV ETF Manipulation: The SLV ETF, which tracks silver, is manipulated by short sellers. They flood the market with fake silver (unbacked by physical metal), depressing the price.

>5. COMEX Rules: The COMEX allows short sellers to settle contracts in cash instead of delivering silver. This lets them avoid ever having to produce the physical metal.

>6. Silver Lease Rates: High silver lease rates (the cost to borrow silver) indicate a short squeeze is coming. But banks can suppress rates by flooding the market with paper silver.

>7. Regulatory Capture: Regulators often turn a blind eye to naked shorting, allowing it to continue.

>8. Cartel Behavior: Major banks collude to keep silver prices low. They coordinate their short selling to overwhelm the market.

>9. Physical vs. Paper Market: The physical silver market (where actual metal is traded) often diverges from the paper market (where futures contracts are traded). Short sellers focus on the paper market, ignoring the physical shortage.

>10. Manipulation Tools: Banks use tools like "stop-loss hunting" (triggering sell orders at specific prices) and "spoofing" (placing fake orders to manipulate prices) to maintain control.

>This cycle of manipulation allows silver short sales to be rolled over indefinitely, artificially depressing the price of silver and maintaining control over the market.

>>12527

This is insane. There are like three different prices of the same thing in the same amount in different parts of the world.