Throughout recent history, the $48 silver price has been a resistance point for silver. Each time silver has reached this price, a sell off would bring the price back down.
Much of this has been instigated by hedge funds working for the globalists, protecting the fiat dollar and Federal Reserve.
Rising precious metal prices would attract investors, thus pulling these investors away from the bond market and investing in the only product the Federal Reserve offers, the fiat dollar.
On Thursday, silver broke the $48 mark, and a large sell off dropped the price of silver by $2.30. Silver climbed back up a full $1 by the end of the day and very quickly reclaimed it's $48 mark the next day. Sitting at $48.22 since the end of the trading day on Friday.
We may see another small sell off at $50 but I think again, silver will recover quickly and break through this resistance point. If we can break through the $50 barrier and maintain this as the new consolidated price for silver, the sky is the limit.
Silver Eyes Historic Breakout as $48 Neckline Looms
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My only problem with timelines like this is that people never consider the macroeconomic and geopolitical factors. It's fine for baselines, but most baselines ASSUME current conditions continue as is. Assuming most world governments collapse (or even just the US federal government) and a collapse of the central bank fiat system with a mass return to the gold or bimetal standard, those timelines get sped up VERY fast and those massive temporary spikes aren't unlikely anymore and become almost guaranteed (though again, very temporary).
And I'm not even getting into the fact that countries like the US are finally designating silver as a strategic metal and will start buying it up for a governmental reserve soon (they haven't yet as far as I'm aware, but its in the works).
At a certain point, its simple supply and demand, every major government and institutional investor on the planet, along with all the FOMO retail investors and degenerate "ape investors" rushing to buy up as much as they can, while supply probably DROPS if anything (because silver is mostly mined as a byproduct of other materials, which tend to drop off in terms of mining output during economic downturns), we'll very likely see a temporary spike like no one could have ever predicted for a few months before it settles down to a more reasonable, but still insane compared to today, price.
And like I said, this isn't the type of thing that'll happen over the course of 5-10 years. When it kicks off, it'll kick off. Think like what happened with bitcoin in 2017-2018 and again in 2020-2021.
This is just my personal experience, but from what I've seen a lot of people in this space (not just here, but everywhere that talks about the topic of silver these days) tends to have a narrow view and get tunnel vision. They want to base things off of historical precedent of JUST silver and not look at the larger macroeconomic and geopolitical picture. Which is fine for baselines, but fails to capture the full picture when you consider that this is a VERY specific set of circumstances that has never occurred all at once and likely never will again.
For lack of a better term, this is a sort of "the stars and planets have aligned perfectly" type of situation when all factors are considered. Investors today are MUCH different than investors even 10 years ago, much less 20 or 70 years ago. So their behavior can't really be compared. Likewise political and economic conditions are much different today when considering the MULTIPLE asset bubbles as large or greater than 2008 and the great depression bubbles ready to pop. And again the political aspect of it all with the exposure and downfall of multiple major world governments with the pedophile and corruption stuff.
It's mind boggling to think about, but you have to account for all of these factors in it all to get an accurate picture of what will probably happen, which I find most don't do.
The "transition" is being managed so it is not chaotic. Look at methodical change over time for gold (2014-2025) which is ahead of silver timeline. Basel III rules in effect July 1, 2025 (US banks) made physical gold 100% collateral (Tier1), but left paper gold at 10% collateral. Why July 1, 2025? Because this event and gold runnup MUST occur prior to US Treasury revalue of their $42/oz Fort Knox/West Point gold. But we are still waiting for an audit of the USG gold and silver. It might look like this? /s https://greatawakening.win/p/19AdgPO9eF/when-the-fort-knox-gold-audit-fi/c/
Gold goes first so Central Bankers don't panic and stop the transition, then silver follows the same road which gold is "pathfinding". Bankers allow it because they think they will be able to use their gold to "stop the silver" later. They are mistaken for all the reasons you listed.
There is a new economic paradigm coming. One with perpetual low interest, u.s. treasury notes gold and silver backed. None of tje current theater matters amd biying silver is still a bargain.