There has been a bear raid by a few of the big banks in the US that have increased their short position by a large amount. At the same time there is now a shortage of physical PM's as people see this for what it is and take advantage of it. The premiums on the smaller size bars and coins has now gone off the scale if you can get them at all. These criminals will eventually have to stop this and cover or the physical metals will disappear from the market all together.

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