For people new to silver:
The bankers use a derivatives market called the COMEX to manipulate the price of silver. 500 digital ounces of silver are traded back and forth for every real ounce held in the vaults. Equivalent to fractional reserve banking. The banks heavily short silver here. So much so that they would go bankrupt if the physical was taken delivery of. The regulators said when first setting up silver-trading on the COMEX in the 70s that the purpose was to scare off the average investor with suppression and volatility. Don’t let them beat you. Adjusted for inflation, silver should be $966 (ShadowStats).
Learn about suppression from
Bart Chilton's death-bed confession to Chris Marcus (Chilton was commissioner at the CFTC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShZrgZEq1YoEric Sprott's friend Craig Hemke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EOPKizJ_Y4Andrew Maguire, a famous whistleblower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKLQGJ_GGZk Rob Kientz, an auditor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyAopYlD32kSee also J P Morgan's 1 billion dollar fine which they recently paid.
This article about the Hunt Brothers, "Hunt for Silver," is also a must-read:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/camppictures/CampArchive/Economy/Hunt%20For%20Silver.pdf | They were cheated by the bankers just like the GME short-squeezers today.
If you buy silver, only buy either physical coins or if you do go with ETFs, PSLV. DO NOT buy SLV.
PSLV: Run by billionaire silver-bull and banker-killer Eric Sprott, fully audited and backed, with a delivery mechanism at 10,000 ounces for anybody
SLV: Scam with no proven metal, run by JP Morgan, only a few big banks have access, delivery for 500,000 ounces only if you're a big bank, can pay you out in cash in case of a default
If you can't buy PSLV then buy AG (First Majestic Silver). It's the next GME. Support the squeeze on this company which has a 30% short-float. The bankers are trying to punish CEO Keith Neumeyer, who refuses to supply the COMEX.