Posted by Buygold
@ 5:27 on May 12, 2026
No follow through today. Dollar and rates moving up some and SM down some. Silver down a couple bucks and gold down $35.
Not sure why the big bump yesterday in silver, unless there’s something going on that is specific to Crimex, but I sorta doubt that.
So, we’re going to give some back today. Will be watching the shares to see how much.
I saw Bullionstar is selling silver eagles of random years for spot, never seen that before from any dealer.
They must be loaded up to the gills with them. Says to me that the general public dumped everything they had on the big rally of the last year. Doesn’t appear we’re going to get any help from them this time around.
My old dealer is paying well under spot for silver of all kinds as well.
The shortages must be purely industrial at this point.
Posted by goldielocks
@ 2:26 on May 12, 2026
I expected the PMs to go up today but then what. Metals no longer speculative but strategic and necessary but can still be short term volatile. This war is interrupting the natural flow of things and most annoying. Especially when you see it sell off over night when the market is closed.
Posted by goldielocks
@ 21:46 on May 11, 2026
There are a unbelievable 61 candidates for Governor. The only few I see on TV are Democrats and talking to the illegals their voting base not the citizens. And their idea of schools.. scary.
Posted by ferrett
@ 19:53 on May 11, 2026
Sounds like yet another case of American negotiators working in good faith, thinking that they have authority for this or that, only to have the deal kiboshed when Trump decides he doesn’t like it. After all, Russia would be one place where it would be safe. If they had wanted to let Iran have fissile material, they could have done so at any time.
Posted by ipso facto
@ 19:25 on May 11, 2026
US Accepted a Secret Plutonium Deal with Iran, Then Canceled It
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the United States, Israel, and Iran had agreed to transfer enriched nuclear material from Iran to Russia, but that the arrangement ultimately collapsed after Washington reversed its position and demanded the material be sent only to the United States.
US Accepted a Secret Plutonium Deal with Iran, Then Canceled It
Posted by treefrog
@ 18:33 on May 11, 2026
Is the energizer bunny !!!
Posted by Buygold
@ 18:33 on May 11, 2026
Posted by ferrett
@ 18:03 on May 11, 2026
Must need another diversion! Donald ‘Joker’ Trump pretending he can’t lift a gold plated tungsten or uranium block (alternatively picking up a block in each hand) assuring everyone that the other 370,000 bars are all there too. Yuuuge!!!
Posted by Buygold
@ 17:14 on May 11, 2026
Ipso – so hard to believe anything said by either side. A week or a year sound like a good guess to me. I’m kind of looking for some leader from another country to step in and save the day, but we’ll see how it shakes out.
maddog – it would be really wise of Trump to do that, but I don’t know if they’ll let him. Don’t forget, there’s that rumor about a revaluation to $20K and gold backed bonds still hanging out there.
Posted by Maddog
@ 16:25 on May 11, 2026
Posted by ipso facto
@ 16:15 on May 11, 2026
The Earth Moves Just a Bit
“Operation Epic Fury was the loud one. Operation Economic Fury is the quiet one. . . . While the carriers were on television, Treasury was doing the actual demolition.” —Jesús Enrique Rosas on X
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-earth-moves-just-a-bit
Posted by ipso facto
@ 15:57 on May 11, 2026
The war might end in a week or maybe a year. The world is in a precarious place, economically and militarily.
It looked like in the Iranian proposal they were willing to give up some of their enriched uranium … to someone else but not to us. I guess that’s progress.
Trump and the Mullahs both think they’re the one winning. It’s like in poker when two players each have really good hands they keep raising the stakes.
Posted by Buygold
@ 15:51 on May 11, 2026
Sounds reasonable. 😳
All that convexity seemed to show up between 8 – 9 am EST today. Not often do we see moves like that to the upside. I don’t know if a note from a bank came out and someone just went all-in at once or someone puked. Either way, let’s hope they keep it going!
Posted by Maddog
@ 14:33 on May 11, 2026
Silver rally is about Convexity…..me neither……though there maybe a silver AI link developing
https://www.zerohedge.com/the-market-ear/silver-leaving-even-sox-behind
Posted by Maddog
@ 14:29 on May 11, 2026
Posted by Buygold
@ 13:47 on May 11, 2026
Ipso – I don’t know what he’ll say to Xi. He probably should ask him to pressure Iran to open the strait, because Xi needs that strait open too. I think his ego is too big to do that though. Trump needs an out IMHO. If he could have just waited a couple years while we got our own house in order, it would’ve been much better. What a mess.
deer79 – I hope my enthusiasm is warranted. I’m stunned by the move in silver. There has to be a reason behind it, or at least why shorts just threw in the towel seemingly all at once after sitting on us for 3 months.
Posted by Buygold
@ 13:05 on May 11, 2026
or is silver too strong for them to do it?
Gold shares still performing pretty well, so I’m kind of hoping for a bit of a gold rally before or into the close.
The YouTube silver commentators are going to be screaming tonight.
Posted by Maddog
@ 12:54 on May 11, 2026
Note the Bull flag on this monthly chart…..if we break out rates are rising big time…..the very last thing Europe needs.



Posted by ipso facto
@ 11:45 on May 11, 2026
Armstrong says this Iran war will last the rest of 2026, and gasoline prices in the US could hit $9 a gallon. Armstrong says, “We are at a point where governments collapse. . .. What we are facing is a sovereign debt crisis globally. International debt reached $353 trillion last month. It doesn’t stop. They don’t pay off debt. They just roll it over. This will come to a crisis because interest payments keep rising. Our interest expenditure exceeds military.”
Armstrong on USA Watchdog
Posted by ipso facto
@ 11:29 on May 11, 2026
lluminatibot
@iluminatibot
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Man cured his cancer with dewormer.
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/2053648849412190536
Posted by Maddog
@ 11:26 on May 11, 2026
can anything drop as fast as BJ Clintoon’s boxers ??????

Posted by treefrog
@ 11:02 on May 11, 2026
…dropping faster than Clinton’s boxers in an Arkansas trailer park.
Posted by ipso facto
@ 11:01 on May 11, 2026
Yeah this war is a real wild card. Iran doesn’t seem to want to back down at all. I wonder what Xi is going to tell Trump? Too bad you listened to Bibi, Trump!
Silver was up $5. The first time I bought silver it was at $5 an oz, total price. Print Print Print
Posted by deer79
@ 10:53 on May 11, 2026
Love your enthusiasm! Heavens knows we need more of that after so many years living in the precious metals Matrix.
Posted by Buygold
@ 10:36 on May 11, 2026
Working over gold to quell silver. If something has broken it won’t work for long.
Going to take a lot of paper to bring the silver price back down.
Ipso – maybe that’s all this really is, a breakout and acceleration of a huge commodity bull. Great for us, not for inflation though. This war is going to turn out to be one of the most ruinous things we’ve ever done to the country. He’s in it now and has no way to get out quickly. The damage to our economy and the world’s is already setting in. Better pray the dollar doesn’t lose reserve status.