Rob Kirby from Kirby Analytics tells Silver Doctors the Exchange Stabilization Fund is most likely using a missing $21 trillion to manipulate the capital markets.

Kirby reminds us $21 trillion is missing form the United States Department of Defense and Department of Housing and Urban Development. He believes the ESF is most likely using the money to manipulate the capital markets. He explains in detail how the ESF manipulates the markets to keep the U.S. dollar afloat.

Chris Martenson from Peak Prosperity tells Silver Doctors the Fed may not be able to control a future crash.

Martenson says the recent stock market correction nearly collapsed the system, and he suspects it was only saved by officials stepping in and buying the market. He explains why it appears someone is manipulating the markets, suppressing volatility.

In the future, will officials be able to prevent a collapse? The market will win out eventually, he says.

He says America’s democracy could be at steak.

The gold/silver ratio has risen to 80/1. The ratio should be 9/1 or even lower, President of First Majestic Silver Keith Neumeyer says. Even if the gold price stayed flat, a 9/1 gold/silver ratio would mean triple digit silver.

Silver is more than “poor man’s gold,” he says. Because of how silver is used in technology, it is an essential metal to our modern way of life.

Neumeyer updates us on how blockchain technology is working its way into the silver market.

James Anderson from SDBullion tells us no fiat currency has survived in the long run.

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A currency crisis is possible, Anderson says. The U.S.’s unfunded liabilities at net-present-value is $210 trillion. He sees the U.S. inflating its liabilities away, which will push down the value of the Dollar.

Anderson discusses investing in precious metals. He says the optimal proportion of gold in a portfolio has proven to be 25% over the last decades. Besides gold, what are the fundamentals for owning silver, platinum, and palladium? Stay tuned to find out!

As expected, the Fed has announced that it’s going to be more lenient towards the inflation rate. We’re not too surprised about this turn of affairs. In fact, we’ve been expecting it for some time. That means a slow down in rate hikes and probably a weakening dollar and lower rates than the market has been anticipating. But that’s how the system works.

Precious metals expert David Morgan tells us based on the level of base money and the amount of gold held by the U.S. Treasury, gold is headed to $10,000/oz. If silver reverts to its historic price ratio to gold, that would mean over $500 silver.

Morgan also points out how an economic crisis could impact the silver supply. 75 percent of silver is mined as a byproduct of base metal mines. If the economy slows, there will be less demand for base metals, reducing the production of silver.

As for the short term, Morgan sees gold and silver moving higher within the next few months.

“Debt levels have reach a point where they have to be defaulted upon,” Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategies tells Silver Doctors.

The rate of 10-year Treasury is at a four year high nearing three percent. Pento forecasts it will rise to four percent, which will be a “floor rather than a ceiling.” If the rate rises to four precent, people will have lost 25 percent from a “risk free” asset since July 2016.

Back in the 2008 crashed, when the Dow peaked, it didn’t fall off a cliff for another six months. The Dow currently is overvalued at least 90 percent, Steve St. Angelo tells Silver Doctors, and we may be in for a repeat of the 2008 crash, only this time, it will be much worse.

St. Angelo lays out a timeline of the crash, forecasting the Dow will first fall to 18,000, then 13,000, then plummet to 3,000. Crazy? Some people would think so. He argues the stock market has been inflated beyond fundamentals. With the popping bubble along with the U.S. shale oil industry disintegrating in the coming years, Dow 3,000 is possible, St. Angelo argues.

When the stock market plummets, he says, money will pile into precious metals, with silver moving up quicker than gold.

London Analyst Alasdair MacLeod also tells Silver Doctors China’s trade, not America’s, is now driving the global economy. He explains the impact this is having on the U.S. dollar.

As the U.S. dollar declines, gold and silver will rise, MacLeod says.

Andrew Z believes that the economy, especially the job market, is looking highly favorable. As a result, wage inflation is happening and therefore the Fed is more likely to raise rates than to leave them unchanged. Spending is going up and so are real wages for the first time in decades. Therefore, the market was overtaken by fears of higher rates and less spending. However, these fears might have been overblown. In any event, it’s not over yet. Volatility is the byword.

JPMorgan has more silver than anyone else in recent history. Their COMEX position is more than 133 million ounces, says James Anderson of SDBullion.

In this week’s SD Metals & Markets with Elijah Johnson, Eric Dubin, and James Anderson:

Libertarian Senate Candidate in California Derrick Michael Reid tells Silver Doctors “we’re looking at a redo of the Great Depression, but this time, a lot worse.”

Reid says the collapse will start in the bond market, then equity markets, then into economies. While the collapse is inevitable, he says it may not be imminent. The U.S. government is trying to keep the system afloat by manipulating the futures markets, but these efforts will only be efficacious for so long. “Their expert criminals,” he says. “They know what they’re doing.”

President of Sprott US Holdings tells Silver Doctors why he’s bearish on bonds and bullish on precious metals.

With the recent rise in the US 10-year Treasury yield, Rick Rule says the bond bull market could be at its end. A reversal in the bond market could be bad for most markets, including equities and real estate.

“For 40 years,” Rule explains, “the most important determinant in precious metals’ prices has been the strength – or at least the perception or strength – in the US Dollar, particularly the US Dollar as expressed by the interest rate on the US 10-year Treasury.” In other words, if the bond bull market is over, then the precious metal bull run is just beginning.

Never have we seen the Dow drop more than 1000 points, and now we’ve seen it happen twice in this week. But stocks are still extremely overvalued, Fund Manager David Kranzler tells Silver Doctors. “The stock market could get cut in half and it would still be overvalued.”

Volatility spiked this week. The VIX is the highest it’s been since 2011. The Dow is down 10 percent from it’s high, but will it drop further? Kranzler says he would not be surprised if stocks fell another 50 percent.

First, James Corbett demystifies the confusion between Bitcoin and blockchain. These terms are not interchangeable, and much of the confusion has led to a irrational hype.

However, Corbett sees the blockchain in combination with a cryptocurrency could change the financial system as we know it. It could almost completely disintermediate the financial system, making everyone their own banker.

“It would be easy to picture silver going up by huge jumps – $10 in a day – for five or six straight days….That’s completely feasible,” says John Rubino of Dollar Collapse.

After hitting the key resistance level of $1360, gold became overbought, and corrected back down, Rubino says.

A currency reset is the only way out of our financial problems, Rubino says. The fundamentals of gold and silver are “outrageously bullish.” Plus, China, Russia, and India are buying massive amounts of gold.

In this week’s SD Metals & Markets, fund manager David Kranzler tells us he is bearish on the U.S. dollar.

Kranzler says in the short term the U.S. dollar is oversold and gold is extended. But long term, he sees the U.S. dollar going a lot lower, and he says gold could hit $1,400 this year. And he is also bullish on junior mining stocks.

Top silver market expert David Morgan tells Silver Doctors the gold and silver markets have just seen a significant positive change in momentum.

As soon as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said at the World Economic Forum a weak U.S. dollar was good for trade, the U.S. dollar slumped to a three-year low, sending gold above it’s key resistance point of $1,350. Silver also spiked, outperforming gold.

Silver outperforming gold is a bullish sign for silver. Morgan sees silver continuing to outperform gold this year.

Morgans says the U.S. Dollar has no support. The chart looks like “a toothpick holding up a big building.” But he says gold is more negatively correlated with the stock market than the U.S. dollar index. Therefore, if gold is going higher, expect a correction in the stock market.

President Trump is giving a speech at the globalist den – the Davos conference this week. Rob Kirby from Kirby Analytics tells Silver Doctors Trump’s speech will be a “show stopper” that will be the ultimate slap in the face to the globalists.

Saturday was the one year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration. Kirby gives his review of whether Trump has stuck to his promise of anti-globalist policies. Kirby finds it peculiar Trump is giving a speech at the “globalist den” – the Davos conference this week. Kirby expects Trump’s speech to be a “show stopper” that will be the ultimate slap in the face to the globalists.

Kirby says the recent decline in cryptocurrencies is not out of the ordinary. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay, he says.