Silver

Gold, futures, global sharemarkets: How markets performed for 2016

We will see in-flation, stag-flation, hyperinflation and de-flation. Many of these flations will happen simultaneously.

Here's the silver version of the Manipulation Timeline.

A cache of documents from Deutsche Bank AG include what a group of silver investors claim is a “smoking gun”: private electronic chats showing traders from numerous banks conspiring to rig prices from 2007 to 2013, according to a court filing in New York last week. The bank provided the document...

Traders and submitters were captured coordinating trades in advance of a daily phone call, manipulating the spot market for silver, conspiring to fix the spread on silver offered to customers and using illegal strategies to rig prices.

Deutsche Bank AG has agreed to pay $60 million to settle private U.S. antitrust litigation by traders and other investors who accused the German bank of conspiring to manipulate gold prices at their expense. The preliminary settlement was filed on Friday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan...

US President Elections vs NBER Recessions vs Gold/Silver/DJIA

Silver and gold should be far more successful than investments in unpayable debt, paper currencies, and levitated stock and bond markets.

Trading volume on Wednesday was 861,275 contracts - the highest in CME Gold history.      

2016 is shaping up as the year when countless conspiracy theories will be confirmed to be non-conspiracy fact: from central bank rigging of capital markets, to political rigging of elections, to media rigging of public sentiment, and now, commercial bank rigging of silver.