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| If you are curious why gold & silver are tanking instead of skyrocketing . . . |
| 2026-03-20 |
| [No01Substack] Selling the future to survive the present: Silver edition Silver is down 25% this month. Gold is off 13%. The world’s largest gas field just got bombed. Energy infrastructure is burning across the Gulf. Central banks have been stacking gold for three years straight. The structural case for precious metals has never - and I mean never - been more obvious. So naturally, we’re selling. “Efficient Markets”, ladies and gentlemen. Let me walk you through the exquisite logic of it all, because it actually does make sense, even if it requires a brief visit to the asylum to understand. The textbook says war = buy gold. Geopolitical panic = safe haven flows. Every finance professor that didn’t enlist will tell you this. And the theory is actually correct. Reality just doesn’t agree with it. What they’re not accounting for is what happens when the war is your income stream. Think about who got obliterated this week. Israel struck South Pars - the world’s largest gas field, straddling the Iran/Qatar border. Iran hit back, targeting Ras Laffan in Qatar (20% of global LNG supply), two Saudi refineries in Riyadh, the UAE’s Al Hosn gas field, Kuwait gas units. This is a fundamental reshaping of the global LNG outlook, with disruptions lasting months, at least. The Gulf states are hemorrhaging oil and gas revenue. Their infrastructure is on fire - sometimes literally. So what do you do when your income stream evaporates overnight? You sell your nest egg. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE accumulated gold (and silver) during the good times. Now those sovereign wealth machines need dollars to keep their populace from revolting. Time to liquidate something. Gold and silver sitting in those portfolios are the most liquid assets they have. Out they go. They bought gold for a rainy day. It’s pouring now. That’s theory one. It fits the tape. Theory two is more mechanical: the Fed held rates again, not even a hint of cuts in 2026. Energy shock equals inflation, inflation equals higher-for-longer, higher-for-longer equals dollar squeeze. The dollar is surging. Brent crude is at $111. And because precious metals are priced in dollars, a surging dollar mechanically hammers their price. A lot of leveraged money was sitting in … well … in about everything, but let’s go with oil and energy. Now that made perfect sense before gas fields started to spontaneously combust but stopped very quickly after. When those blow up - and I’m not talking about gas here anymore - you don’t get to choose what you sell. You sell whatever is liquid. Whatever is profitable. Gold and silver at January’s prices qualified on both counts. The precious metals dump isn’t people wanting to sell those. It’s people having to sell to cover positions they can no longer hold. Forced liquidation doesn’t care about fundamentals. |
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