the situation on the commodity exchanges have gone to such an extreme that i am going to call them what they are: price controls. what we now have is basically a black market in silver and gold, except that it is legal. there is an official price for gold and silver, set on the comex, and there is also a free market price at which silver and gold coins and bullion trade everywhere else. companies with long standing contracts do business at the official price, while everyone else buys and sells gold and silver at prices that have less and less to do with the spot market.

this article is about a coin dealer in tucson who can't find silver and gold to sell:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/business...