china has been heavily buying gold as part of its strategy to replace the us dollar w something else as the worlds reserve currency.
India has heavily been buying gold and i think silver for jewelry etc.

the silver market is heavily manipulated by jp.
i've watched as silver stocks either dropped in unison or rose in unison faster than retail could react to news or even get their orders in as the big boys siphoned money from retail as usual. crazy.

silver unlike gold is heavily needed for industry and the silver/gold ratio is out of historical balance so even more illogical for silver to be falling amidst all the recent geo-political tensions.

at some point big boys will decide its time to raise silver price again faster than retail can react.