For inflation to come into play the money supply needs velocity, and that come from those dollars being turned over. The value of silver or other metals is they have been suppressed below their market value for so many years to prop up the petro dollar (which is no longer used in oil trades in many countries) and that value is only there due to two things, suppression and the barrel of a gun. If the supply dries up, the shorts are forced to sell and the price goes to market, completely different scenario than the GameStop play. The silver squeeze is not a coordinated effort, its middle class workers trying to protect the value of their wealth that's being stolen from them by central banks.