FriedrichVonHayek

I believe the Shanghai metals exchange is closed until Monday.
Could be a smackdown incoming!

You may scoff but our day will come!
 
 

You may scoff but our day will come!
 
 

You may scoff but our day will come!
 
 

I vividly remember this interview, aged well in Manchester 😆 

You may scoff but our day will come!
 
 

You may scoff but our day will come!
 
 

Yeah... I had a dream....
In my dream silver gone up to the moon and gold dropped to the bottom. I was doing swaps with @James32 one table spoon for 1oz gold and one teaspoon for two sovereigns... James paid for shipping both ways, because was desperate to offload his fooking sovereigns and to gain some good quality silver.

Silver will have it's day. Tech, AI etc.... As I've said before; copper is the highway, silver is the glue.
It's COMING (even if it's taken 50+ years so far 😆). And with the price of gold people will have no choice but to move over!

https://www.bullionstar.com/charts/silver-price-today
Silver is a few pence shy of £22oz in Shanghai.

I know what their remit is, I just find it amusing knowing when they will / won't mention certain things.

A hidden driver may be the worsening energy insecurities for all continental European regions.
The French have lost access to their nuclear resources from their Africa ex-colonies very recently. Wagner has driven them out, claiming several gold mines in the process as well. The French would buy their energy resources at 10% of real market value and now must pay 100% value. They're about 75% dependant on nuclear energy. The midget in charge of France is posturing for war with Russia for this reason alone, although everyone knows that they can't take on the Bear. 
The French' humourless cousins, the Germans, are living the green nightmare. Much gas meant for the European mainland came through Ukraine and several key terminals were bombed the past few weeks. They've no way of supplying both industry and civilian needs coming winter. They're not in a position to go to war and are looking for a diplomatic solution.
The other regions on the continent have no independent energy policy anymore and will either pay for Germany and France, leading to social unrest, or try to save themselves, leading to political instability on the continent.
As a whole, the continent is completely unable to force concessions currently from Russia for cheap energy and there's no alternatives available. Widespread unrest is in the horizon and won't abate until the American elections are done. 
Just my 2 cents.

The packaging does look similar to the Royal Mint packaging,then again Aldi gets away with it so why not?

I don't know anything about trademarks but I can remember Royal Mint making the Pobjoy Mint withdraw their Britannia coin for a trademark infringement.
https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/pobjoy-mints-silver-bullion-britannia-violates-trademark.html

The packaging does look similar to the Royal Mint packaging,then again Aldi gets away with it so why not?

I don't know anything about trademarks but I can remember Royal Mint making the Pobjoy Mint withdraw their Britannia coin for a trademark infringement.
https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/pobjoy-mints-silver-bullion-britannia-violates-trademark.html

Looking at gold, silver now looks really attractive. It is nowhere near ATH, but beginning to want to follow gold's trend, it seems. Gold will still go up a lot more, I'm convinced, but the safer and smarter buy at this point might be silver.

Looks very much like it. Silver playing catch-up.

Silver is still dirt cheap, the Gold/Silver ratio is around 88, I won't be getting excited until it goes below 80.

The packaging does look similar to the Royal Mint packaging,then again Aldi gets away with it so why not?

I don't know anything about trademarks but I can remember Royal Mint making the Pobjoy Mint withdraw their Britannia coin for a trademark infringement.
https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/pobjoy-mints-silver-bullion-britannia-violates-trademark.html

Silver is still dirt cheap, the Gold/Silver ratio is around 88, I won't be getting excited until it goes below 80.

Silver is still dirt cheap, the Gold/Silver ratio is around 88, I won't be getting excited until it goes below 80.

Silver is still dirt cheap, the Gold/Silver ratio is around 88, I won't be getting excited until it goes below 80.

Silver is still dirt cheap, the Gold/Silver ratio is around 88, I won't be getting excited until it goes below 80.

I couldn't agree more that voting makes no difference, because they're all singing from the same song sheet on a global scale, as was so blatantly demonstrated during the covid farce, and no matter who you vote for, you will always get more of the same. 
However, a spoilt ballot paper is supposedly still counted.    You could speculate that they count the spoilt papers to keep tabs on the level of discontent from the plebs, and to forewarn if the numbers get too great and become a possible threat.
This time I intend to spoil my paper and make it crystal clear that I do not consent to any of it, and will not under any circumstances choose parasite A, B, C, or D to lord it over me while he/she/it runs off with all the tax revenue in his/her/its pocket, while bending all the rules or making up new ones to benefit themselves, illegal immigrants, the police, and other criminals . 
I don't expect spoiling my paper to make any difference other than to put me on a government list of possible subversives on a home office computer somewhere.
There is another likely scenario, and that is that the entire thing is rigged to provide the desired outcome every time regardless. We know it's rigged to the benefit of the main two by the FPTP system, but even with that safeguard in place,  I suspect there are further manipulations that go on to ensure pole position is always passed only between Labour and Conservative - consider the South Thanet scenario in 2015 for example.  Missing ballot boxes my left bollock...  !
This is way off topic. Gold is about to punch through the £1800 mark. .....    And no one seems to know what's driving it....🤔

The packaging does look similar to the Royal Mint packaging,then again Aldi gets away with it so why not?

I don't know anything about trademarks but I can remember Royal Mint making the Pobjoy Mint withdraw their Britannia coin for a trademark infringement.
https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/pobjoy-mints-silver-bullion-britannia-violates-trademark.html

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