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I love the continual doubt [music] because that means these people don't have a concept of what's really underlying these markets bull trend. It's not just another bull trend in gold than silver. This is something far [music] bigger and they >> You're watching Silver News Daily. Subscribe for more. >> Silver has finally done the unthinkable. It's shattered a 50-year ceiling that most analysts thought would never break. But that ceiling wasn't just a price range. It was the last illusion keeping silver suppressed in a rigged financial system that's now unraveling in real time. According to legendary market technician Michael Oliver, what we're witnessing isn't a rally. It's an escape. An escape from decades of manipulation, neglect, and disbelief. And the moment silver broke through that so-called idiot range, a new reality was born. One where a $500 price tag isn't speculation, it's math. Because silver didn't just rise, it detonated. In a single year, it surged 167%, outperforming gold, platinum, and every major asset class on the planet. Gold, meanwhile, is pushing toward $5,000. And if Michael Oliver's projections play out, $8,000 gold could ignite a financial meltdown that sends silver into orbit. And here's the part no one wants to talk about. The public's already breaking. Pawn shops are flooded. Family heirlooms are being sold for scraps. And silverware, once passed down through generations, is now being traded for gas money. That's not a healthy market. That's an economic scream. So, what's really happening? Why is silver exploding while the dollar falters? And what does a total fiat collapse mean for you? Because if this breakout is what Michael Oliver says it is, then we're not just heading for a new all-time high. We're entering a silver apocalypse. U couple months ago we adjusted um the I knew we'd get the 60 I thought we'd get the 6070 by the end of the year but ultimately it is not a target. Um I think we've begun a phase in silver that we've explained to our subscribers over the last handful of months is likely to be a jolting one that takes silver to what we call a new reality. uh meaning not just doubling the price but you know more likely quadrupling or more the price very quickly meaning within two quarters thereabouts. Uh the signal that generated that was not the fact that the net trend of silver and gold is positive. They've been positive for a couple years. They zigzag but you know it's been net trend positive. So it's not that issue. It's the issue of the relative performance relative to one the stock market meaning a breakout that is clear technically speaking in which the performance of gold for example versus the S&P is no longer a duel which for the last 10 to 11 years if you looked at a spread chart of gold divided into the price of the S S&P you'd see this basing pattern with ups and downs within it which case gold outperformed for a year or two. It didn't pull back some and you know so but basically sideways where it was basing relative to its performance to SOP. It broke out of that pattern in November and now it's one month later and we've gained hundreds of dollars and the spread has continued to explode. But also when we divide when we analyze gold miners, gold and silver miners like say GBX or XAU and divide it into the S&P 500 and plot the same chart going back dozen years. Lo and behold it broke out also in November meaning which place should I be the US stock market or gold and silver miners? Well, it said gold and silver miners. Well, they've roared since November. They've been roaring before that. But this thing said something just began. This is a big metric. I mean, you don't build a base that's 11 years wide. Clearly defined with multiple highs. For decades, silver was trapped, locked inside a manipulated range so rigid that analysts began calling it the idiot range. A sideways grind where every rally was crushed and every breakout was a fake out. From the early 1980s through to 2024, silver danced between two invisible walls, bouncing from suppression to despair as gold soared and silver lagged. But on the surface, it just looked like underperformance. Underneath it was a powder keg. Then came the rupture. In late 2025, silver didn't just edge higher. It exploded through the ceiling like it had been waiting half a century for this exact moment. And it wasn't subtle. Silver blasted past $77 an ounce, shattering all-time highs and ripping through resistance levels with the kind of violence only seen when long-term structures collapse. It was the ultimate signal. The idiot range was dead, and silver had entered a new regime. Michael Oliver was among the first to call it. His technical models, built to detect seismic shifts before they hit the headlines, identified the structural breakout before most even knew what they were looking at. And according to Oliver, this breakout isn't just important, it's historic. He's warning that this pattern mirrors the early stages of the 1979 silver mania when prices skyrocketed from under $6 to nearly $50 in just a year. But this time, the conditions are even more explosive. Because this time, the breakout isn't happening in a vacuum. It's happening alongside monetary collapse, gold divergence, and a public on the brink of panic. What makes this moment so critical is that it breaks the psychology of suppression. For years, silver investors were trained to expect failure. Every rally faded, every peak reversed. But now, with the lid blown off, that entire psychology has flipped. Silver is no longer the metal that gets left behind. It's the one leading the charge. And that changes everything. >> Hit the same sort of level. And you can draw a line, anybody could, and you break through that. That's that's a breakout. It's fresh. And silver did the same. But the other thing that we thought was more important for silver is that it broke out versus gold. Meaning that if you want to asset allocate assets to monetary metals, fine. That's what this these charts tell you to do. But within that complex, you want to preference silver. It's likely to lead. Silver's also broken out of its what we call the idiot range, which it's been in for 50 years. You know, 50 bucks for four bucks, 50 bucks back then. You know, 50 years in a range, an old normality. Uh we showed in reports a couple months ago a similar situation in copper and lead that had prevailed back in the 70s through 2005 to 2007. like multiple decades of rangebound action by both those base metals. And in 2005, copper broke out of that range and in two quarters it quadrupled in price and then lived in a new reality subsequently. Now it's breaking out again to a new another reality. Lead did the same thing. Other words, when it it finally decided in 2007 on its own merits to break out of a multi-deade old reality, it quadrupled in a matter of a couple quarters. What's going on here? Well, it's when a market discovers, oops, I made a mistake. I shouldn't have been here that long. Boom. You know, markets make mistakes. They're not rational all the time. Uh and anyway, silver is now uh by our metrics, the spread chart versus gold, especially saying, "Okay, I'm out of here." We think silver is highly likely to go, I I think personally my own positions, which I expose in the report at the end in a disclaimer, is likely to see, you know, 200 bucks and you might even see it within the next handful of months. In other words, within a couple quarters of that breakout. So, put your seatelt on and don't expect normality. >> Just before we get going, we just launched the official Silver News Daily Telegram. To kick things off, we're running a 10oz silver giveaway. 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Silver is now up 167% year-to date, dwarfing gold 72% gain and platinum's 169% rally. And unlike past runs, this one isn't being driven by hype or speculation. It's being driven by a hard supply crisis, urgent monetary shifts, and something the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge. Silver's official designation as a US critical mineral. That last point changes everything because once a metal is labeled critical, it becomes a national priority. It means stockpiling, trade protections, and policy shifts that can disrupt global supply chains overnight. And silver with its industrial backbone and monetary legacy is now being pulled in two directions, both of which are straining supply to its limits. Investment demand is erupting. ETF inflows are climbing and sovereign institutions are quietly accumulating while retail investors still think they're early. The truth is they're late. Silver's $77 breakout also came at a time of deepening geopolitical tension. With air strikes, dollar weakness, and collapsing faith in central banks, money is rushing into real assets, and silver, long neglected, is now front and center. Analysts are calling for $80 silver by year's end. But the real story is this. $77 wasn't a peak. It was a checkpoint, a moment that confirmed we're not in the final phase. We're in the first wave. The momentum isn't just strong, it's historic. Silver's recent surge has been so aggressive that even profit taking hasn't slowed it down. Traders aren't looking to sell, they're looking to buy more before the next leg up. And when a breakout like this happens against a backdrop of falling dollar strength, collapsing real yields, and institutional desperation, the next move is rarely small. If you think $77 was impressive, just wait. Because according to the math behind this rally, we haven't seen anything yet. >> Well, we we examine platinum, palladium, and all the other components of the Bloomberg commodity index monthly. Technically, examine them. And platinum, I know a lot of people like to link it to gold, but unfortunately or fortunately, whatever the reality is that if you go back decades and decades and look at platinum and look at gold, they do not correlate. Well, there have been times when they do, but there's also been times when the Bloomberg commodity index correlates to gold. So, you know, you can't say corn is like gold. Okay, you get the point. So, platinum broke out by our metrics a handful of months ago and has since roared, but it did it pretty much in sync with the Bloomberg commodity index and let's say the action of copper for example. Uh, so we think quietly it is a precious metal. It is not a monetary metal and that that it's not just a subtle difference. That's important, I think, because ultimately what we're facing here for gold and silver that there something the analysts just don't seem to get their head around is that we're facing a fiat money crisis and we've had a you know like a hundred years of that unbacked stuff and uh it's finally reaching a crisis point because uh the focal point now is the US government and Japanese and UK and etc. said debt markets, their debt. And when you reach that crisis, you've reached the big one. And that's when the issue of fiat currencies comes into question. And already there are movements we know around the world here, there, and this country, that country to move more toward a goldback situation. And this coming crisis, which again I don't see analysts talking about, uh, is going to hit. And when it hits, then suddenly they'll say, "Gee, that's the reason, huh?" "Oh, now I understand." Anyway, that's that's where I think we are, and I think 2026 is going to expose uh almost all of it. >> Here's where things get truly unprecedented because for the first time in over a decade, silver isn't just rising with gold, it's outpacing it. And that should set off alarms for anyone who understands how these markets move. Historically, silver has always lagged behind gold in the early stages of a precious metals rally, only to erupt later with violent catch-up moves. But what we're seeing now isn't a delayed reaction. It's a reversal of the entire dynamic. Michael Oliver's models point to something rare, a silver breakout that's actually leading the rally. While gold has been grinding steadily toward its all-time highs, now sitting just under $4,550, silver has launched, tearing through technical ceilings and pushing the gold silver ratio into territory that demands a reversion. In plain terms, silver is now priced so cheaply compared to gold even after this rally that historical pattern suggests an even bigger surge is baked in. Let's put it in perspective. The gold silver ratio, which measures how many ounces of silver it takes to buy 1 ounce of gold, has often acted like a spring. When it stretches too far, it snaps back. And when that happens, silver doesn't just close the gap, it overshoots. During past corrections, silver has moved up three times, four times, even five times faster than gold. And right now, we're staring at one of the widest spreads in modern financial history. With gold pressing toward $5,000 and silver just recently crossing $77, that kind of divergence is not sustainable. Something has to give. And history tells us it's usually silver that goes parabolic to restore the balance. But this time, it's not just history at play. It's raw necessity. Because as gold gets more expensive and less accessible to the average investor, silver becomes the only alternative. And that's exactly what we're seeing. explosive retail demand, surging ETF positions, and whispers from central banks that silver may soon play a role in global reserve diversification. The gold silver ratio isn't just a number, it's a signal, a warning that silver is still massively undervalued even after its run. And if history rhymes, then we're standing right at the edge of a classic pattern. Silver about to go vertical with gold lighting the fuse and fiat chaos adding fuel to the fire. Well, if you go back and examine the two acceleration phases of silver that occurred within the old reality, that would have been 1979 to 80 when after years of advancing already at that point. Silver exploded like quadrupled in a matter of uh 5 months. It was right for like 12 bucks to 50. Okay. Uh and then in uh 2010 and 11 again after years of advance, so it wasn't like some new game. Silver doubled in a half in about seven months. Boom. Okay. But in the middle of both those moves, if you microanalyze them, which we've done, there was in fact a midpoint, what you might call stumble or a midpoint pause or midpoint correction. It really didn't amount to much other than for a moment in time making people feel like, "Oh my gosh, that's the top." But that was only like 3 months into what we define as the couple quarter move. And so sure enough after that little jig jag was over right in the about in the middle of that clock they exploded again even more so than what they done in the first half of that clock. So the question now is let's say uh we got a signal in the close of November. So let's say this is month one two three. So maybe you get to February or so, at that point we're going to be focused at MSA on trying to define any midpoint stumble. It will be a fake out. But we still know that there's a lot of including myself a lot of investors who are positioned in call options and therefore are sensitive to such fluctuations. So it would be an important thing to avoid if you can, but you don't as an investor want to get out of silver at that point. In fact, you don't want to get out of silver period, even after the six-month move because there's a new reality about the dawn. And while price will have made much of its move, um the the interesting point though will be let's assume the six-month clock is about right give or take a month. Okay? And again, this happened to copper. It happened to lead. It happened to silver twice in the past 50 years. Where are you going to be at the midpoint of that move? Could be very interesting. Are you going to be 80 95? Let's say 95 to $100. And I picked that because that's a stupid level. Why is that stupid? Because if you take the arithmetic range of the past 50 years and you simply add it to itself, the target would be roughly somewhere close to 100, you know, $50 range you add it. So it's sort of an idiot technical analysis. What we're arguing is you should do it on a logarithmic scale. And if you take that range that was like four bucks to 50 for 50 years and you double it, that means double that means d you double the range on the log scale, which is like a t-fold range, four bucks to 50. You're talking $500. Don't be don't chuckle. Um the interesting thing, well, where will we be? Let's say about 3 months into this move, will we be under 100 or will we be well over 100 and then we get a jiggle? Because that sort of sets your d your your dynamics. You you think, well, if we got this far in the first three, good grief, where are we going to be in the next three? Maybe 200's too low. Uh, so I'm not we're not certain on >> the warning signs are everywhere, but one of the loudest is coming from deep inside the monetary system itself because this isn't just a silver story. It's a fiat story, a gold story, a confidence story. And when Michael Oliver talks about gold hitting $8,000, it's not hype. It's cold historical symmetry mixed with monetary math. He's not just throwing out big numbers for headlines. He's pointing to a systemic breakdown already in motion. And if that collapse plays out the way it did in past inflationary episodes, silver's rise won't just be exponential, it'll be catastrophic in scale. Let's be clear, the fiat monetary system is in terminal decline. Trillions of dollars printed in just a few years. Record debt to GDP ratios. Central banks buying their own government's bonds like junkies needing a fix. This is the endgame of currency debasement. Gold has already sniffed it out. It's trading near $4,550, supported by massive central bank purchases and a global retreat from the US dollar. But gold doesn't move in isolation. When fiat systems fail, gold shines and silver detonates. And here's where the math becomes terrifying. At a gold price of $8,000, which becomes increasingly likely with more Fed rate cuts and a dovish pivot under a second Trump administration, the historical gold to silver ratio implies a silver price between $250 and $500. That's not a moonshot. That's based on decades of price relationships under extreme monetary stress. In the late7s, silver hit nearly $50 when gold was barely above $800. Apply that same ratio today and the implications are staggering. And it's not just the ratio, it's the psychological pivot. The world is waking up to the fact that fiat currencies are being sacrificed to keep debt bubbles afloat. The dollar is losing purchasing power faster than it can be measured, and people are starting to scramble for lifeboats. First gold, then silver. And by the time silver begins its parabolic climb, the train will already have left the station. We're not talking about a slow grind higher. We're talking about a chain reaction. One where monetary chaos feeds into precious metal demand, which feeds into supply pressure, which ignites another leg up. And before you know it, we're talking $200 silver, then $300, and maybe higher. Michael Oliver's model doesn't just suggest it, it demands it based on the collapse of confidence now unfolding before our eyes. >> I uh that correlation, by the way, is is a coin toss. We've studied it and studied it, put out reports at length going back to the 50 years or so examining the movements of gold, the miners, etc. during stock market downturns. And um the response by gold, the gold miners, silver, it's a little bit different each time, but not always do they respond to sharp stock market downturns. And plus, I say sharp because the stock market could go down and it won't affect silver and gold at all. I mean you look at 2007 let's take as an example uh it peaked in in October 2007 dropped November December January February March six more months passed while the stock market was declining not collapsing declining hard though and gold was continuing up and miners were continuing up during that same six-month period it was only when you got to September October of 2008, a full year after the bull market peak in stocks, way off the price high, that finally gold and the miners and silver have a very sharp drop that seemed to be correlated to the S&P, although they certainly weren't correlated in that first year of the bare market of stocks. So, it's an iffy correlation. In fact, I we showed charts in a recent report where back in the 20078 period when stocks topped, you looked at wheat, corn, and soybeans and gold, they correlated much better. So, you could argue, oh no, gold went down because the grain topped because they topped also, not with the stock market, but later on, like in March or so of 2008, six months off the stock market high. So you could almost make a better correlation and say, "Well, got to watch corn, beans, and wheat because that that affects gold." Or is it the other way around? Maybe gold affected them. You get the point. Uh yes, there can be correlations. As far as the stock market goes, I don't think there's going to be a sharp collapse type event in the stock market until certain other things happen. We've been arguing for the last month that our that the stock market decline is not going to commence right now because we've already wasted two. But what makes this silver setup even more explosive is what's happening behind the scenes. Because while prices are soaring and demand is spiking, the world is quietly running out of silver. This isn't hyperbole. It's a structural supply crisis that's been building for years. And now it's reaching a critical breaking point. Vaults are emptying, inventories are thinning, and the system that relies on paper promises of silver is about to collide with a harsh physical reality. There simply isn't enough actual metal to go around. We saw the first crack in October when a historic short squeeze sent silver skyrocketing and forced major dealers to scramble for supply. London vault saw massive inflows, but it wasn't enough. Most of the world's accessible silver still sits in New York waiting because traders are terrified of what comes next. The US Commerce Department is now reviewing whether imports of critical minerals like silver pose a national security risk. If tariffs are introduced or worse, if exports are restricted, it would light the fuse on an already unstable market. That's not just speculation, it's preparation. Because when a government starts labeling a metal critical, it signals one thing, scarcity. And when that scarcity is met with rising demand from both investors and industry, you get a supply shock. Not a temporary blip, a fundamental rupture. Mining output can't ramp fast enough. Recycling is nowhere near sufficient. And most of the world's supply pipelines are already stretched thin from geopolitical tensions, energy crises, and labor disruptions in top producing regions. This is the moment when promises start breaking. ETF issuers may hold claims to silver. But when too many clients demand delivery at once, the metal won't be there. That's when trust evaporates and price becomes the only mechanism left to balance demand. In a supply-driven panic, silver doesn't rise gradually. It surges violently as investors race to secure whatever physical metal is left. And that's the silent trap. Most people don't realize how small the actual silver market is. It doesn't take much to move it. A few billion dollars flowing in from institutions or panicked governments could double or triple the price overnight. And in a world where fiat is crumbling, that scenario is no longer hypothetical. It's inevitable. Too many months on monthly momentum of the S&P or NASDAQ and trying to go down on those metrics. You get downward readings on momentum yet price was just struggling sort of sideways for especially the last three months. So when we see that waste of time on momentum where there is a decline on the momentum readings but no real response by price then as far as we're concerned for the moment the bare clock is over. They've had their chance. We're likely now to see and we said this in a report two weekends ago. You're likely to see further gains in the S&P before you even start to top again. But overall from an investment comp context, we've been arguing that since early this year when the S&P was like just below 40 6,200 at the peak then that what you're going to see is a topping process could involve a year. It's what happened in 2000. It's what happened in 2007. It took a whole year of this twisty turny but slightly rising action to top it out. But the the the structures that we see on momentum that could cause a precipitous drop are next year likely to be in the mid 5,000 area. So in other words, thousand points below, you know, like at 20% below where the market is right now before you hit levels that will cause a sharp drop. So, in other words, we could see the stock market roll over, gold continue on up, silver, etc., and not see the stock market really get get kicked in the the shin until you get down into that 55 5400 zone. There's technical reasons for that. Uh, when you hit that level, you could see a sharp drop, but who knows? Maybe at that point you're in April or May and suddenly your six months on silver are over and silver's reached some kind of level like 200 or 500 or whatever and has a sharp correction coincident with a stock market break but at a new reality level. The issue is getting to the new reality for silver. And right now, I don't think the stock market is going to be a problem in terms of generating anything drastic on the downside. >> You want to know how close we are to full-scale economic panic. Just look at the public. Not the analysts, not the traders, the everyday people. Because when ordinary citizens start hauling their grandmother's silver sets to pawn shops, when heirlooms that sat untouched for generations are suddenly dumped on the market for cash, that's not a top signal. That's a red flag of despair, and it's happening right now. Across the country, dealers are reporting a flood of physical silver coming in, not from profit-seeking investors, but from desperate families trying to stay afloat. This isn't just anecdotal, it's psychological. When the public starts offloading their last real assets, it's a sign that inflation is no longer theoretical. It's a daily reality. eating into paychecks, raising food prices, crushing savings, and silver, once seen as a legacy or a backup plan, is being liquidated just to buy groceries or cover rent. That kind of behavior only emerges at the edge of a financial cliff. And history has shown us time and time again that these moments always precede massive shifts in market behavior. But here's the twist. While the public is selling silver for pennies on the dollar, the smart money is quietly buying it up. institutions, sovereign wealth funds, and strategic investors are accumulating the very metal that desperate households are unloading. It's the same playbook we've seen during every major reset. Retail panic, institutional accumulation, and then a sudden repricing that leaves the sellers stunned and empty-handed. And let's be honest, this isn't just about silver. It's about confidence. When people lose faith in their currency, they sell what they have to survive. But when the system rebounds or worse resets, it's the holders of real assets who come out ahead. That's why the signal here is so powerful. The public's capitulation isn't a reason to sell. It's a signal to brace for what's coming next. Because when this kind of despair hits the streets, the next phase is usually a parabolic flight to safety. And silver is perfectly positioned to be that escape hatch. It's affordable, tangible, and historically proven to explode during inflationary panics. While the public sells in fear, the stage is being set for the biggest silver squeeze of our lifetimes. Well, I I I don't we don't look at supply demand as such. I we know that for 5 years now, silver supply to demand has been deficient. Okay, the demand is more than the the output of silver. And the output of silver is hard to increase because primarily it doesn't come from silver miners. It comes from base metal miners. And so they're not incentivized to produce more silver as a marginal product just because silver price is going up. They're they're more concerned about the base metal they're producing. U so I I we don't look at that. I do find it interesting though that not only are credit card limits, you know, maxed out and delinquent and all that kind of stuff, but people are selling their their granddad's jewelry, grandmother's jewelry and coins and stuff. What does that tell you about the the comfort level of the public? I thought everything was going well and that's what we hear from above. How come people are having to sell their grandparents silver, you know, and in nine ten months from now, they're gonna want to turn around and wish they hadn't? But no, I don't think it's a serious uh in fact, it's it's probably a motivator for silver because it tells you how weak the economy is. And when when you kick the shins out from under the the legs out from under the stock market, even just taking it down, let's say 20% in arm wrestling pullback, that's going to shock a lot of people, too, cuz that's the only thing they got to smile about is, hey, you know, my my retirement account's up on the year. Take that away from them. You know, don't don't crash the market. Just ooze it down 20%. And uh you know, the despair will hit. That's when you get emotion and political consequences like total fragmentation of the norm norms of the political system like you know you've got uh Democrats Republicans forever. No, not necessarily. You might end up with third parties that are that are vying with them and have equal public support in which case you don't have a two-party system anymore. Already the parties are fragmenting badly. Uh it wouldn't shock me to see new new parties arise, you know, radical left, libertarians maybe, who knows? Um things are changing and I think the selling of that silver by these people is desperate. It says how badly things are changing. That's ultimately good for monetary metals. >> Silver's role in the coming meltup isn't just monetary. It's industrial. And that part of the story is reaching a pressure point most people still don't understand. While gold shines in times of crisis, silver surges because it wears two hats. It's not just a store of value. It's a workhorse. And right now, every major industrial trend from solar to EVs to 5G is screaming for more silver. The problem, the system doesn't have it. Take solar for example. It already accounts for nearly 20% of total silver consumption. And that demand is only accelerating. Governments worldwide are pushing green energy mandates, funneling billions into renewable infrastructure and building solar at record speeds. But silver isn't optional in high efficiency photovoltaic cells. It's essential. No substitute exists that can match its conductivity and performance. As solar expansion ramps up, so does the call for silver, and supply simply can't keep up. Then there's electric vehicles. Silver is embedded in almost every component, batteries, connectors, wiring, sensors. And as automakers pivot toward full electrification, the amount of silver used per vehicle is climbing fast. Multiply that by the tens of millions of EVAs projected to hit roads in the next few years, and the numbers become staggering. And again, there's no substitute. Silver isn't just a preference, it's a requirement. Now layer in 5G technology where silver plays a vital role in the miniaturized high-speed circuitry required for nextgen communication. From smartphones to towers to infrastructure, silver demand is being quietly baked into the backbone of the global economy. And here's the kicker. This industrial consumption isn't price sensitive. Manufacturers don't care if silver is $30 or $300. They need it either way. That means even if prices skyrocket, industrial users won't slow down. They'll just pass on the costs while investors compete with corporations for a shrinking supply of physical metal. This is why the current rally is different. In past bull runs, silver's rise was fueled mostly by monetary fear and speculation. But now, industrial demand is forming a second wave of pressure that won't let up, even if the financial markets stabilize. That creates a unique scenario, a hard asset with unrelenting demand from two directions at once. And in markets this tight, that's a formula for vertical price movement. So while the world focuses on gold and inflation, the real sleeper is silver. Quietly becoming the most in demand metal on the planet with the least amount of supply to satisfy it. >> 500. That's what I hear. I hear that all the time. If I marked over the last couple years, especially since 2024 when we said, "Okay, gold's coming out of its sideways range." You know, we've been stuck just above 2,000 for handful of years. Got over 2,000. They'd sell it every year like a ceiling. And in March of 2024, it was coming up over 2,000 yet again. We said, "This time's the difference. It's going to take off." Well, okay. Well, it's been two years now. Not quite two years because that was March of 24. And uh so silver silver's doubled in a half from that level. And all along the way if you if you went into the internet and looked at analysts and and listened to, you know, chief gold analysts from this or that brokerage firm, you'd have heard repeatedly, oh, it's got to correct down to here. It never did. It would always give you some kind of correction. recall April, May, June, July, uh April, May, June, July, and I think partly into August, gold was capped at 3,500. They just couldn't get a correction going. I think all they could create is a stall. And then since October, we had the October high just short of 4,400 and they [clears throat] tried to cap it again. This time, the cap only lasted a month and a half. [clears throat] And you know, they keep looking at it's now gold's got to go back to 3500, I hear. or silver, it's got to go to 40. Uh, I don't know what these people are smoking, but you know, I I'm very happy to hear it because I love the continual doubt because that means these people don't have a concept of what's really underlying these markets bull trend. It's not just another bull trend in gold and silver. This is something far bigger and they don't grasp it, nor do they grasp the technicals. And that's if you're long silver, appreciate that. We'll later hear him scream you got to buy it, but by then we might be 250 silver. You know, >> gold has already made its move. It's broken out, smashed records, and marched its way toward $5,000 an ounce without hesitation. Central banks are loading up. The dollar is falling out of favor, and global investors are finally waking up to the reality that fiat currencies are on a fast track to destruction. But if you've been watching this space long enough, you know that gold always moves first and silver always moves harder. That pattern is not just a quirk of the market. It's a fundamental law of how panic behaves. Right now, silver is winding up for that catch-up move. It's lagged behind gold for most of the year. But over the last few months, the tide has turned. Silver's performance is now eclipsing golds, and we're entering the phase where that lag becomes a slingshot. Because historically, when gold breaks out, silver doesn't just follow, it explodes. In 1980, silver went from under $6 to nearly $50 in months. In 2011, silver shot from $9 to $48 in 3 years, outpacing gold's gains by hundreds of percent. And this time, the setup is even more extreme. Gold has already paved the path by signaling total loss of faith in paper money. But silver's move has barely started. And when it begins in full force, it won't be slow. That's because silver trades in a much smaller, thinner market. It doesn't take tens of billions to move the needle. A few institutional buy orders, a single geopolitical shock, or a short covering cascade can send it skyrocketing. We're also seeing new layers of demand that didn't exist in past cycles. Retail traders are more aggressive, informed, and coordinated. Platforms like Reddit and social media have created a hive mind of buyers that can target and squeeze the silver market in a way never seen before. Meanwhile, ETFs like SLV are swelling with inflows and physical premiums are rising as real silver becomes harder to source. So, if you're watching gold and thinking the moment has passed, think again. Gold was just the warm-up. Silver is the main event, and when it takes off, it'll be with a force that redefineses what's possible in a metals market. The real question isn't whether silver will catch up to gold. It's how violently it will overshoot. >> Gold is now the it's the always been the mama market of the monetary medals. Okay, people forgot that silver is also a monetary metal and has been for thousands of years and is likely to become so again. Okay, uh the poor poor man's gold. But gold, if you just simply go back, and I've said this over and over in in interviews, that if you go back and look at the last 50 years of gold and put it on a ratio scale chart, like I mentioned about silver, you know, four bucks to 50 back and forth. If you take that same log scale, it says you're going to 500, you know, to match the dimension. In the case of gold though, it's had a high at at uh $850 in 1980 from a low around 100 in 1976. So three and a half year bull trend, eightfold gain times the bare low. Okay. Then in 2001, you made lows at $260ome dollar gold and you went to 1920. Oh, took it 10 years to do it. Eight-fold move. So ratio scale the same dimension though much higher each time. Okay. On the log scale chart. Now gold is beyond the 2000 high at 1920 but and if you measure from the bare low that preceded where we are now that was 2015. Gold made a bare low at 1,50. 8fold says 80 mid 8,000s. Okay. Right now we're 4500. We're only four-fold into the same type of move we had twice before in 50 years under conditions that are nowhere near as dynamic fundamentally or technically as existed then. We're much stronger. We have much more potential. So when I say 8,000 gold, that's not a prediction. That's saying, "Hey, if we simply do the norm one more time, we'll be 8,000." Well, can you imagine where silver might be given the fact that it's breaking out versus gold or spread relationship? And I'm arguing that if you go back over the last 50 years and look not at the range of silver, but where were its spread readings versus gold, what was its relative value? In 1980, it was 6.5% of the price of gold. In 2011, in that bull run, it was over 3% the price of gold. Right now we're just above 1 and a.5% of the price of gold. Imagine if the relative performance, which again is technically broken out, matches or exceeds the relative performance level it saw in the last 50 years like price has already done. What if the spread does the same thing? Silver goes to beyond 3% of gold or maybe beyond 6 1/2% of gold particularly in the next 6 months. That means if gold's 8,000, you do the math, your jaw will drop. So I think you have to open your mind to that possibility, too. So gold getting to 8,000, even if it just goes there, the norm, the question is, where's silver going to be? Everything we've covered points to one conclusion. Silver's breakout isn't a phase. It's the opening act of a full-blown financial transformation. From the obliteration of its 50-year suppression range to its 167% rally, from surging industrial demand to public capitulation and looming fiat collapse, all roads now lead to the same destination. A silver price that not only smashes its all-time high, but redefineses it. And Michael Oliver's $500 target, that's not sensationalism. That's a trajectory rooted in technical analysis, monetary decay, and economic desperation. The dollar is weakening. Gold is preparing to double. Silver has decoupled. Supply is collapsing. And the system built on paper promises is teetering. That's not a setup for a rally. It's a setup for a supernova. When the dust settles, silver may not just be a hedge. It could become the centerpiece of a new monetary paradigm. If you've made it this far, you already know something big is coming. So don't wait for the headlines. Stay informed, stay alert, and if you value content like this, hit that subscribe button and join the conversation. The silver explosion is just beginning, and those who prepare now may be the only ones who benefit when the storm hits. This is not financial advice. Always speak to a licensed professional before making any investment decisions.