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250M-oz/Day Machine, 153M-oz Pool: Silver Primed For More Explosive Moves While Base Layer Rotation Back To Gold Continues To Accelerate
London “turns over” ~250M oz of silver daily on a free float ~153M oz—even a 25–35M oz top-off is hours, not a fix. 100–150 tons of Chinese silver (≈3.2–4.8M oz) are being tugged East as India repatriates 576/880 tons (65%+) of its gold and lifts gold to 13.9% of reserves. With repo taps flickering, swap-spreads drifting negative, and CTAs puking while gold remains ~0.5% of U.S. assets vs ~2% long-run, price discovery is migrating to where bars live. Expect thinner float, faster snap-backs, and a slow-motion reserve shift from IOUs to atoms.
Collateral Coup: 4.6T¥ Liquidity Ask, $33B Fed Repos, and a Week of Global Silver Vanishes East
BOJ’s seven ops couldn’t meet demand (4.6T¥ vs 1.75T¥), the Fed’s window has soaked up $33B since June, central banks hold the most gold this century, and Shanghai just vacuumed nearly a week of mined silver—while put/call sits at 2020 lows and retail leverage is record-high. Translation: leverage is maxed, price discovery is migrating to hard collateral, and gold-linked debt is moving from idea to blueprint.
223% Valuations. 701 Leverage. 10% of Silver Shorted. The Setup.
Record-high Buffett Indicator and retail leverage collide with a five-year, 2.6σ gold-to-silver mispricing, a structural silver deficit, and a Dow:silver breakdown—priming a sharp rotation from overvalued, levered equities into scarce monetary silver.
1971→Now: >2% inflation everywhere; China premiums flip; 1.84M oz silver drained; gold warrants go vertical; India’s 10:1 silver-collateral rule; 92 BOJ liquidity shots
The greatest leverage regime in recorded history is turning into a collateral regime—why price discovery is migrating East, why float is shrinking, why volatility is set to rise, and why even small allocation shifts can send gold and monetary silver much higher.
Silver Regains Monetary Metal Status in India • COMEX Gold delivery spikes • BIS-driven paper dumps • U.S. may be Selling Gold to Fund FX deals • Extreme Fear on a –1% day • U.S. debt hits $38T
These figures sketch a leverage-soaked system rotating back to hard collateral. Policy is re-monetizing silver and gold, why paper slams don’t cure physical scarcity, and how mounting funding stress channels flows into the base layer—setting up asymmetric upside in metals and violent squeezes ahead.
48.52 > 47.97 | 9.25% SLV Borrow | SHFE's Silver Reserves On Pace To Be Completely Drained In 12 Days | $3B Fed Repo — The “Smash” That Proved the Squeeze
Yesterday’s plunge was paper, not metal: spot still over futures (backwardation), SLV borrow dear and scarce, China draining tens of millions of ounces while SHFE gold hits 86.6t, and U.S. banks tapping $3B pre-market for cash. Read this to see how collateral scarcity, East-ward flows, and funding stress turn dips into air pockets, widen spreads, and set up violent snap-backs as price discovery migrates to whoever can pay—and take delivery.
−4% Futures, 16% SLV Borrow, 106.5t Shanghai Drain (to 749t), 1⁄3-Week Global Output Pulled, Loans Worst Since ’22, Housing +500k Seller Gap
This is the blueprint of a leverage break. Crowded shorts (high borrow) are leaning on price while physical disappears (Shanghai drain, tight London/NY), turning spreads and backwardation into alarm bells. Layer on BOJ-fueled carry risk, cracking credit, and a buyerless housing tape—and you see why paper wobbles while base-layer collateral (gold & silver) gains structural tailwinds.
China's "Silver Capital" and India's Largest Refinery Are Sold Out Of Silver While Borrowed Money In Stock Market Makes New Record High for 4th Consecutive Month
Yongxing is out of bars, India (≈25% of demand) blew through refinery stock, lease/borrow costs scream, and Western inventories thin—paper can’t conjure metal. Gold is <5% of global wealth (vs ~25% in the ’70s) as reserves pivot from debt to collateral that can't default; a simple allocation shift (U.S. 2%→20%) implies ~17,800 tonnes—~6 years of mine supply, ~13 years if global. Translation: leverage inflated everything else; scarcity will reprice gold & silver—fast.
🚨 The Silver Squeeze The Masses Are Missing: SLV Borrow Rate Hits 20% Yesterday With Zero Shares Available To Borrow During The Vast Majority Of The Selloff
Silver just locked in an all-time high weekly close as borrow rates hit 20%, ETFs run dry, vaults drain, and half of JM Bullion’s 100-oz bars vanish from stock. Beneath margin hikes and “orderly markets,” the late-stage debt super-cycle is fracturing—paper silver is suffocating while real metal disappears into strong hands.
Fear & Greed Index Back To Extreme Fear For The First Time in 6 Months; US May Have China Cornered With Coming Gold Revaluation
VIX screaming to ~26 with the S&P still ~2% off ATH, Fear & Greed slammed to 23 (Extreme Fear), bank stocks (KBE) down ~5%, and gold ripping toward $4,300+ while silver sprints — exactly what you get when confidence in fiat evaporates and the “race to the bottom” in currencies meets a race to the top in gold.
Refineries Stop Guaranteeing Delivery, SLV Yanks 8M+ oz Back Out After a Day and a Wall-Street 20% Gold Pivot
Refineries stop guaranteeing delivery, SLV yanks 8M+ oz back out after a day, borrow fees spike to ~16%, and London premiums get so rich traders charter planes for 15–30M oz while U.S. debt sprints to $38T → $40T and Morgan Stanley blesses 20% gold. Oh, and the Fed's Emergency Liquidity Facility "Unexpectedly Soars Most Since Covid."