Your opinion on the shares is well known. Whether you are right or not remains to be seen, although most, but not all, of the shares have underperformed the metals so far on this run.
With regard to NEM I suppose Blackrock could have taken a position in NEM for I guess the sole purpose of selling them at key times to stifle any rally that was getting out of hand, or to prop up their short positions. But that’s an awful big position to take to do that. I take issue with the idea that they don’t care about making money, that’s all they care about because money IS their means of control.
We’ll have to see how things shake out. I would suggest that the underperformance of most of the shares has more to do with the price of silver than anything else. But I suppose that is debatable.
The one thing in my life that I no longer do is give advice to other people, even if asked. I might offer options but give them the pros and cons.
Sometimes though, I feel like I have “I need your advice” printed on my forehead, because so many people feel the need to give me unsolicited advice. It’s funny, you’d be surprised how many people told me how I should treat my cancer who have never had cancer themselves before. ?