Francis Hunt

I want to see $100+ silver just to fuck over the Bullion Banks that have been screwing mining companies and investors for decades.

Silver is not rising because of speculation. It’s rising because the paper market is structurally short against real metal, and that’s why CME margin hikes work the opposite way most expect. Here’s the mechanism, step by step 👇 1) What margin hikes are designed to stop CME margin increases are meant to slow leverage-driven rallies: Too many paper longs Too much borrowed money Too little skin in the game In that environment, higher margins force liquidation → price cools. That logic only works when the rally is optional. 2) Silver’s problem is not leverage ,it’s obligation In silver: A large share of shorts are structural (bullion banks, producers, hedgers) They are short because they’ve promised metal Their risk is not mark-to-market, it’s delivery This means: Longs can leave Shorts cannot 3) What a margin hike actually changes A margin hike does not: Reduce delivery commitments Create new metal Eliminate physical demand It does: Increase daily cash required per contract Raise the cost of rolling shorts forward Tighten internal risk and liquidity limits This attacks time, not price. 4) Time compression on shorts (the core) Before the hike: Shorts can roll positions Wait for longs to give up Absorb manageable daily cash bleed After the hike: Cash drain accelerates Rolling becomes punitive Risk desks shorten tolerance windows Credit lines come under stress The same position that could survive weeks now survives days. That’s time compression. 5) Why this accelerates the squeeze As time shrinks: Shorts stop optimizing price They optimize survival They buy back earlier They accept worse prices At the same time: Speculative longs exiting reduces liquidity Bullion banks step back from market-making Paper supply thins Physical premiums stay firm Result: less selling, more urgency, higher bids. 6) Why producers matter most Producers hedge by shorting futures against future output. They don’t sit on trading liquidity, their cash is tied to operations. When margins rise: Variation margin spikes Daily cash calls increase Hedging becomes unsustainable So they are forced to: Reduce hedges Buy back shorts Or delay hedging entirely That turns a natural seller into a forced buyer. 7) Futures and physical decouple As stress builds: Futures liquidity deteriorates OTC and bilateral settlement grows Physical premiums rise Backwardation appears Margins don’t stop the move, they push price discovery away from paper. Final truth (the line most miss) Margins kill leverage, not scarcity. When silver rises due to a structural shortage, margin hikes don’t cap price, they expose the imbalance and accelerate resolution. That’s why silver keeps moving through tighter margins, and why this is not a speculative rally.

Our Town Council keeps raising taxes. So I showed up with an English Lord’s wig to speak in *favor* of taxes. “If you can’t pay your taxes…don’t be poor.”

How does someone lobby the government?