The silver price is even more actively repressed than gold, in terms of the number of paper silver derivatives traded against real metal available. It may be because the silver market is much smaller and therefore more easily controlled. I've seen the comment that if "they" lose control of the siiver price, gold will follow, and that will be a real problem for the dollar. Given that silver has lost it's use as currency, and is now, more than ever, a critical component in green technologies, demand for the metal will soon overtake the current annual world supply. Much of this supply is as a by-product from base metal mines, Thus the supply is relatively inelastic, relying on the demand for these other metals. Miners will require a much higher silver price to target silver as a primary product. This will have to happen if industrial users are to get the metal. 23.
