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đš THE SILVER SCREAM: Why the "Screen Price" is a Lieđ
Letâs get real for a second. If youâre checking your phone and seeing Silver at $100/oz, you aren't looking at a market. Youâre looking at a mirage.
The "paper" price and the "physical" reality have officially divorced. While the screens show one thing, the world is paying another:
đșđž COMEX: ~$100 (Paper Promises)
đŻđ” Japan: ~$145 (Physical Metal)
đšđł China: ~$140 (Physical Metal)
đŠđȘ UAE: ~$165 (Physical Metal)
The Arbitrage Ghost
In a functioning market, a 65% spread between the U.S. and the UAE would be closed in hours. Traders would buy the cheap paper, demand delivery, and sell it where the price is high.
But they aren't. Why? Because the "exit" is blocked. The paper market is no longer a discovery mechanism; itâs a containment zone.
The Short Squeeze Nobody is Talking About
The math is simple and terrifying:
The Trap: Major bullion banks are sitting on massive short positions.
The Exposure: If the paper price reflects the true physical clearing priceâroughly $140+âthe losses aren't just "red candles." They are balance-sheet-breaking, bank-collapsing realities.
The Survival Tactic: Banks are forced to print more paper contracts to suppress the ticker, while savvy players quietly drain the vaults of the actual physical bars.
The Breaking Point
This is a game of musical chairs played with 1,000-ounce bars.
Real value is being tucked into private vaults.
Paper promises are multiplying like a printer out of control.
It works until the inventory hits "zero." When delivery stress spikes and the COMEX can't find the metal to back the contract, the paper price becomes irrelevant. It becomes a ghost.
đž Bottom Line
Silver isn't "stable." Itâs restrained.
Think of it like a coiled spring under a hydraulic press. Most people are staring at the press; Iâm staring at the spring. When that tension snaps, it won't be a gradual climbâit will be a structural repricing that leaves the "screen-watchers" in the dust.#CPIWatch #Write2Earn
