Jeff Christian. Boy that brings back memories. He was always one of the speakers at the Silver Summit conferences. Nearly all the speakers at that conference (I attended three years in a row somewhere back around 2010) were raging bulls with many of the same stories you hear today of why silver price will shoot the moon. Jeff was always the spoil sport in the room, LOL. He kind of had a nickname of being under the influence of the dark side of markets. The ones purportedly manipulating the silver markets downward periodically. Exceptionally smart guy and well connected within the industry.

I didn't really care one way or the other. I invested in silver because I wanted an off farm investment for our IRA's and such and wanted some diversity. We had survived the 80's farming but just barely. Things were much better but just in case............. I didn't want every last egg in farming. I saw the imbalance of what was being mined (then the government still had a small stash of scrap silver coinage but it was almost depleted and another bull argument of why silver would soar in price) and what was being consumed and figured some day the market would adjust to the new normal, manipulation or not. If prices were periodically manipulated low, so much the better. Just meant I bought cheaper. Got more ounces for my money as I was a believer of dollar cost averaging in.

So this rally???? Maybe the old bulls were right after all, just 15 years ahead of themselves. Or maybe not. I been buying CD's with my winnings and still have a long way to go. Silver price high or low, manipulated or not, crash or not, I'll be just cozy fine. Whatever happens at this point, I'm good.