Chris Marcus

Articles by Chris Marcus

Zoltan Poszar recently wrote about the possibility of Russia responding to the G7 oil price cap by selling its oil for gold. Which is far from a done deal, but not entirely outside of the trend we've seen with a growing list of countries...
 

We've witnessed a rather steady and consistent drain of silver out of the COMEX registered category since the silver squeeze weekend in February of last year.

And after seeing about 2 million ounces actually deposited into the...
Silver has been rallying again over the past few days, with the COMEX spot price now back over the $22 level.Jerome Powell's comments yesterday where he talked about a reduction in the size of the rate hikes, possibly as soon as the Fed's...
A few weeks ago we hosted SilverFest III, where in the final 'ask the experts' panel, one of the topics that came up is how long the current pricing environment can be maintained, and whether 2023 is the year where we finally see a higher...
In the past few months we've seen the silver market go into 'backwardation' several times, which means that the spot price has traded over the futures price. Which isn't supposed to happen, and is usually an indication that physical...
 

Over the past 2 years there's been a lot of silver leaving the COMEX and LBMA vaults. Which Ronan Manly of BullionStar.com has been reporting on thoroughly.

Yet that raises a few questions....first of which, is where is all of...
Last week when we held the SilverFest III celebration, one of the topics we wanted to cover was what exactly is going on the retail silver market. Where premiums have been high, and many products have been delayed or unavailable.

So we...
On Friday the Silver Institute released a report noting that the silver market is headed for the biggest deficit in decades, forecasting a deficit of 194 million ounces in 2020.

Perhaps it sounds somewhat counterintuitive to hear in a...
With 2022 coming to an end in just over 6 weeks, we had a roundtable at SilverFest III that offered a preview of what to expect in the silver market in 2023.I was joined by silver experts Bill Holter, Rob Kientz, and Peter Krauth, who...
Last Saturday at SilverFest III, David Morgan joined us to give his year in review of everything that happened in the silver market in 2022.

It was certainly a volatile year in terms of the COMEX spot price, which was well over $26...

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US silver mining began on a large scale with the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1858.

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