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SILVER IS THE LYNCHPIN OF THE ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Many years ago, the money changers realized that national debt levels and the levels of money printing they were engaging in were unsustainable with any kind of reasonable bond yield levels the market could sustain. The interest on 1 trillion debt at 17 or 18% interest as occurred in the 1980s would be absolutely impossible to sustain at current debt levels of 28 trillion, but with 30 year bond yields at 2%, they can kick the can down the road for a few more years.
To keep bond yields low, the money changers also needed to trick the markets into thinking inflation is LOWER than the bond yields they require, as nobody would buy 2% yielding bonds if inflation was obviously 5%.
They learned that they could drag the entire commodities market lower by controlling the price of precious metals. The price of wheat for example was dragged into a brutal bear market for the last 10 years at the same time as the gold bear market.
They also learned that the silver market was much smaller than the gold market, no nations used it for monetary purposes, and very few had strategic stockpiles of the metal.
By suppressing and controlling the tiny 20 billion dollar silver market with 5 trillion dollars of notional derivatives trading, they could force gold’s price down, which is always tied in a ratio range with silver (historically around 1:15 or so). If you'll notice, when the gold and silver ratio are at the highest peaks, the price of the metals are near their lowest troughs.
By controlling silver, they could force gold to act in turn, which is used as an inflation signal for the broader commodities market which supported the continuation of artificially low bond yields and an impossibly high level of national debt.
