Silver and a “Monday Sky Check”

No, we are not ringing the bell, yelling “Panic!” and everyone “run from street.”

But, there are a couple of great videos making the round this weekend from Jon A.G. over on Youtube which will help you feel less like “Chicken Little” is coming and more like “Jeez, should have listened when George was buying silver at $6.94 back in 2005, huh?”

I’ve seen this movie before — you might want to notice the trailer. It sure smells like a re-release.

We followed a reader tip and landed on Jon AG – YouTube.  And if you like money, block out time today – tomorrow could be too late.

Let’s start with his (Friday) take on what was buried under the cover of Santa late Friday after the markets closed.


Then, he followed-up on Saturday with this:

And then there’s his Sunday take.

As Long-time readers know, I don’t usually put videos up – I have real things to do around here on weekends.

But, taken as a whole, I think these videos set the stage for the outcomes we kicked around in Saturday’s ChartPack on the Peoplenomics website.

A side bet: Big banks and the Fed don’t like to admit to bailing out The Bigs.  So we are half-expecting either Trade tomorrow, or maybe Housing data Tuesday could become the whipping boy in the week ahead.

Have the Maalox at the ready and more tomorrow before the bell…

George@Ure.net

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      • Uh-oh…

        Is AG actually AI?

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        macpduff2119
        17 hours ago (edited)
        The issues for me are that 1- “Asian Guy” doesn’t exist, he’s a computer while Clive is a real human. Give me a human created video every time! 2 – Whatever or whoever is creating Asian Guy, is rude and aggressive because they have created dozens of YT channels, aggressively flood our YT suggestion boxes, that crowd out legitimate.

        Clive Thompson is a retired Swiss banker.

        “Silver panic! Manufacturers fear closure of production lines if silver can’t be sourced.”

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E-_iTYcXAjg

      • Yes, very suspicious, Asian Guy videos on many youtube channels.

        Boring Currency
        The Boring Currency
        John Bacoms
        Final Wealth Warning
        The Exposure Index
        Inside The Brief
        Finance The Secrets
        Legends of Finance History
        Currency and Currency

        And more…

        • I watched the videos, very interesting/scary. Like you, I noticed a lot of videos from different channels popped up in my feed featuring Jon Ag. The Jon Ag channel has only been around for 3 weeks but has cranked out a lot of content (AI).

          Plus, some somebody pointed out in the comments:
          Asian Guy – AG – Silver

          Coinkidink? I think not.

        • The Exposure Index
          Currency Index
          Financial Revelations
          Financial Exposures and Financial Revelations
          Bullion Watch
          World Economy Reborn
          Financial Crunch
          Sam Finance

          Many new videos, too many, impossible, Jon AG not human.

  5. re: “The Ball Drops Here”
    feat: Times Square Countdown Timer

    Wow, shiver me timbers, sounds like Captain George is readying to reset the chronometer! I don’t know if Mr. Anderson Cooper will be calling the shots this New Year’s Eve for “CNN”. The Times Square Ball website informs that the first “time ball” saw use at Greenwich, England in 1833. A startup 1907 New York NYE effort saw one hundred 25 watt lightbulbs descend from on high thanks to a certain Russian-born metalworker named Mr. Starr. However there’s a new 9th generation ‘Constellation Ball’ festooned with Irish crystal in Times Square this year ready to drop its 6 ton hammer weight on the festive mood. Here’s a link to Time Square’s paper detailing the new ‘Constellation Ball’ representing “Infinite Life, Liberty, and Happiness”:

    https://timessquareball.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TS2026_Ball__Numeral_Fact_Sheet.pdf

    The President of the Ukraine has not posted video to social media of his airport arrival at Miami. Thankfully Ukraine’s “News Live” captured the dramatic port entry. Descending upon uncarpeted surface, the President received greeting from his Ukraine Ambassador to the USA, a uniformed officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a possible apparatchik of Ukraine bureaucracy. It is understood that the Ukraine leader is scheduled to meet President Trump at 8:00 pm. I don’t know if the public invitation includes sustenance or whether the Ukrainian entourage will be invited to chill in the ‘Honorable Justin Trudeau’ Library annex while Mar-a-Lago guests finish dinner.

  6. Don’t buy paper PM’s in this environment unless you can afford to walk away from the principal.
    A monster box at less than $10K was quite the bargain. I haven’t really seen anything to indicate yet that the PM run-up is something more than the market taking a Comex default into account. Don’t kid yourself into believing that Trump, Powell and the Treasury depts don’t have the Roosevelt play book memorized. I would say that a $150K silver monster box isn’t really likely at this time, but would be a diversification investment, not the last lifesaver, at least for now. Ask me again in May.

  10. JM Bullion no longer has 2025 silver Eagles for sale. The 2026 pre-sales are at $ 44,690.00 . The 2026 boxes are paper PM’s right now.
    There are some 2022 physical boxes, but that is all of the sealed physical big boxes available from a big national broker.
    Silver is approaching $80/ ounce. Another 10% by the end of the week is not SF. To get to $150K requires almost $300 an ounce. Don’t see that happening in the immediate future. Gold is not rising anywhere near that fast. This is gold/silver ratio adjustment.
    I would like to be a fly on the wall at the Fed repo window. I’m expecting some regulators to move on some banks by Friday. Ag contagion.

    • snork, We (the Royal We) last bought physical at $14. But, it’s tradition to award new born kids with a Silver Eagle. Held my nose this spring and paid the premium for the son of a E2 bud. Laughed when seeing the Dad (E2 bud) and taking his family and son for a boat ride late summer. The little tyke was already +10%. Last night futures printed $83 and today (Monday), despite wide positions in every direction, futures are <$73.

      May we live in interesting times.
      We do …
      E

  11. interesting
    Ukraine holds significant reserves of silver, ranking ninth in Europe based on the size of its deposits

    • the big dice roll… if we win the dollar is solvent..if we lose oh well .. it was a gamble
      e any way you look at it.. DODGE … uncovered what amounts to the deficit of mismanaged taxpayer funds..what AG is bringing up is…
      It’s telling that big banks quietly tap the Fed for billions while silver and gold start behaving like escape hatches. The public narrative says ‘everything’s fine,’ but behind the scenes, it looks like a scramble to hedge against a BRICS-led shift away from dollar dominance. When pension funds start panic-buying silver and China licenses physical metal, you know the paper game is under stress. The Fed won’t call it a bailout — but if it walks like one well you know the old shtick. Makes you wonder what kind of monetary architecture they’re trying to patch before the next leak.

    • whats funny is while everyone keeps treating these liquidity injections, metal shortages, and sudden shifts in global trade like they’re random events. They’re not. When big banks are quietly tapping the Fed, and when silver demand explodes, and major economies start settling trade outside the dollar, it’s all part of the same pressure system. It doesn’t mean collapse is guaranteed — but it does mean the financial world is adjusting to forces bigger than the usual market noise. Ignoring these patterns doesn’t make it go away — it just guarantees we get caught off?guard when the consequences finally show up.

  12. “bailing out The Bigs”

    Is commercial RE going to get the bailouts, or was Big Building already bailed?

    Be sure to sell the silver one day before Trump takes it all. Like others point out it’ll be for national security reasons. You want the national to be secure, don’t you?

  13. I am hoping that we have until Spring. After watching those videos, I think the meltdown will happen quickly. That triggers a whole slew of other prophecies.

    Nostradamus Quatrain III-5
    Shortly after the default of the great luminaries [gold and silver]
    Which will occur between April and March.
    What loss! But two great debonair ones
    By land and sea bring relief [to] all parts.

    If Russia and China rescue certain countries, NATO and the U.S. will lose allies, potentially India, and parts of Asia and South America.

    Thanks for those videos George. I have some serious decisions to make tonight.

    • Stu – thanks for all your hard work – you’ve given us the historical scaffolding to be warned about – fine work and well played (even if most if the rest of the world is run by shitheads and credit taker, what I can say?)

    • “Shortly after the default of the great luminaries [gold and silver]
      Which will occur between April and March.”

      I’m hoping it’s a little later. I need to get back to my house in the US after the snow melts and try to sell my PM’s. Late mid-March is my current target for the trip.

      The last time (not too many days ago) that I mentioned selling, I got flack from a couple of self-proclaimed “experts” saying to “hold, hold, hold.”

      My current situation is that I am moving to a tropical island with a year-round growing season. My wife and I have made a down payment on 3 hectares of fertile land and we need the money from those metals to complete the land purchase and build a house.

      • “The last time (not too many days ago) that I mentioned selling, I got flack…”

        No flack, you are using the gold buy land, that is different from selling gold to have fiat currency.

      • OO : one might read “default of the great luminaries [gold and silver]” to reflect failure to deliver. It might not impact physical holders at all. That’s where we are, futures out of line with delivery capability. It’s the root of what has happened in the last 24 hours-ish. A fight-back ~ E

    • This scenario is becoming increasingly plausible. Comex is already in jeopardy. But while the margin calls on 50 to1 leveraged commodity contracts can happen literally overnight, the resolution of derivative contracts can take quite a while, and potentially become a judicial industry windfall.
      With different economic sectors starting to have credit deflation unraveling out of sync, it is difficult to predict all of the places this Ag contagion will spread to. But given how deep that threads of silver are embedded in the fabric of the economy and the manufacturing segments, this may light fires in places you never thought of being dependent on silver pricing and delivery. An eleven month duration sounds right for the first generation bad stuff to unwind, Stu.

    • Are you on record the default happens Q126/before income tax deadline 2026?

      To be honest I lost hope when the Black King never materialized…. Biden die, yada, yada.

    • Hmm…I believe Nostradamus’s quatrain about ‘the default of the great luminaries’ is often interpreted symbolically rather than literally, but the imagery aligns surprisingly well with a real economic transition we’re watching today. In modern terms, ‘luminaries’ can be read as unsecured fiat currencies whose value depends entirely on confidence and continuous demand. The BRICS initiative isn’t about overthrowing anything; it’s about creating an alternative settlement system backed by tangible assets—gold, silver, energy, food commodities, and other raw resources. From an economic standpoint, that’s simply a shift from a purely fiat model toward a commodity?anchored one. Whether or not one sees it as ‘relief,’ the structural logic is straightforward: when large economies diversify away from a single reserve currency and build payment systems tied to real goods, it naturally redistributes monetary influence. It’s not really a political move, but the way i see it is that it is just how international economics evolves when trade blocs grow and seek stability through hard?asset backing.. while we march in for the oligarchs they follow up behind apologizing for our rude behaviors.. Now what I see is.

      In international relations, when a major power experiences long?term industrial decline or shifts its economic base away from manufacturing, it often creates openings that other nations can fill through investment, infrastructure projects, or security partnerships. Economists sometimes describe this as a ‘vacuum effect’: when one actor reduces its presence in a region, others naturally expand theirs. This isn’t about good or bad intentions — it’s simply how global systems rebalance.

      At the same time, when a country’s military commitments are heavily distributed across the world, analysts note that it can create a perception of reduced focus on domestic infrastructure or border management. That perception — whether accurate or not — can influence how other nations position themselves economically or diplomatically.

      In strategic theory, this is often compared to a chessboard move.. oh here it comes.. the poison pawn trap… when attention is fixed on distant pieces, the center of the board becomes more dynamic. It’s not a prediction of conflict, just an observation about how shifts in economic capacity, global engagement, and domestic priorities can create complex strategic patterns.
      god its hard to be humble when I predicted this years ago..who would have guessed the old ranting moron of the wastelands had hit on this probability the see it play out in real time…

  14. “Jeez, should have listened when George was buying silver at $6.94 back in 2005, huh?”

    And Ure was late to the party at that price! I have a box full of $4 rounds.

    • re: Triage Team called up?
      feat: Monsignor’s Sicilian cousin

      Belay the mob, who’s your Fairy Godmother? In line with Hank’s train of thought, here is a “CNN” link a week and a half following 9/11/2001 noting a 10% silver price move from $4.19 to $4.62 per ounce following the WTC collapse.

      https://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/22/rec.buried.treasure/index.html

      As chance would have it, the southern limit of Tribeca (“The Triangle”) – a district awarded to Trinity Church on Broadway in 1705 by Queen Anne (AR) – appears to be accepted as Vesey Street, named after the first rector of Trinity Church. On September 11, 2001 prior to WTC building collapse, the street became one of the ems rapid triage posts.

      According to ChatGPT, experienced ems instructor Ms. Lillian Bonsignore attended Ground Zero on 9/11 and into the following weeks as an onsite leader while ems responsibility morphed from triage to recovery to morgue duties.

      Interestingly the name “Vesey” is said to derive from the Anglo-Norman de Vesci noble family of whom Baron Eustace, a son-in-law of the King of Scotland, signed the Magna Carta in 1215. “Bonsignore” is understood to be of Southern Italian origin meaning “good lord/good sir”.

      Currently a tempest appears to be brewing over the selection by the new New York mayor for gay, retired FDNY chief of EMS operations Ms. Bonsignore to become the next Commissioner of FDNY. ‘Yes Robin, “Holy Frogman” indeed’ as the Caped Crusader escapes from the Mad Hatter’s plaster of paris encasement on the February 24, 1966 ( 99,66 ?) “Batman” broadcast. Hold on, do you see a Bat-Signal from Commissioner Gordon too?

      Following retirement from EMS in 2022, Chief Bonsignore became a “senior advisor” with UK headquartered Cambridge Consultants. Curiously the firm had become a subsidiary of French colossus Altran in 2002 after the former’s prior parent went bankrupt in the dot com crash. Altran in turn became a subsidiary of French giant Capgemini in 2020. Apparently the moniker carries two-towered meaning with “Cap” standing for ‘Center for Analysis and Programming’ plus the latin “Gemini” translating as ‘twin’. Capgemini headquarters is situated in the Place de l’Étoile (“Square of the Star”) district in Paris. It’s star-shaped 12 avenues are anchored by the Arc de Triomphe begun by Napoleon Bonaparte following his victory over Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz on December 2, 1805.

      Let’s join DJ George at the cinema as the Dynamic Duo break Parisian molds in Monsieur Marble’s studio as seen at the following Youtube link:

      https://youtu.be/fc_eE7lHOPA&t=4m12s

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