CHINA JUST BROKE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY!!

Source: https://citizenwatchreport.com/china-liquidity-wave-hits-metals/
Published: 2026-01-21
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2026-01-21 13:46:18 by Horse
Views: 133

I’ve been analyzing the market for the past 2 days, and something is clearly wrong.

There’s huge manipulation happening behind the scenes and it’s getting out of control.

No one has noticed it yet, but it’s far more dangerous than it looks.

China is flooding its system with liquidity again.

One of the largest monetary expansions outside of COVID.

Trillions of new yuan chasing real assets.

Gold, silver, copper, rare earth metals.

Silver production is only ~800 million ounces per year.

Bank short exposure is estimated at 4.4 BILLION ounces.

Read that again.

That’s over 5x the planet’s annual supply.

If silver keeps rising, the biggest banks in America are in existential trouble.

This isn’t speculation anymore.

Yesterday silver went up to $92, then dumped 8% in minutes, bounced back near $91, and then started falling again.

Most people see volatility.

I see manipulation.

This was not a normal correction.

This was a forced liquidation event.

At ~$90 silver, the combined short position represents roughly $390 BILLION in liability.

That’s larger than the market cap of most global banks.

This is survival mode.

WHY DID SILVER DUMP TO $86 OVERNIGHT?

Because it had to.

If silver broke and held $100, margin calls would have detonated across the system.

So they slammed paper contracts during thin liquidity to force price lower.

Classic playbook.

But here’s the tell they can’t hide.

While paper prices fell, silver lease rates exploded higher.

The cost to borrow physical metal went vertical.

Spot > futures.

That means nobody wants a paper promise later.

They want the metal NOW.

This is what a broken market looks like.

THE MATH IS TERMINAL.

4.4B ounces short.

800M ounces mined per year.

At higher prices, recycling dries up because holders hoard.

Industrial demand is inelastic.

Solar, EVs, AI, electrification – factories must buy at any price.

Banks aren’t just short silver.

They’re short the industrial revolution itself.

And the physical market is already cracking.

Wholesale dealers are quoting unavailable supply or multi-week delivery delays for size.

Cash settlement is creeping in quietly.

Forced liquidations always come next.

When silver snaps back above $92 – it won’t pause at $100.

It will skyrocket even more.

$120.


$150.


Overnight.

The moment the first major short breaks.

THE TWO MARKETS HAVE SPLIT.

→ Screen price: A paper fiction held together by algorithms.


→ Street price: Unobtainable.

They are shaking the tree one last time to scare you out of physical.

You are watching the death of the paper silver market in real time.

This is what a commodities supercycle looks like at birth.

How would I know?

I’ve called market tops and bottoms for over a decade.

And I’ll share my moves publicly so everyone can follow.

If you want to win, all you have to do is follow me.

A lot of people are going to regret not doing it sooner.

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#1: Horse    To: Horse, Pinguinite (#0)

I TRIED TO POST THIS AS A COMMENT BUT GOT THAT STUPID ERROR MESSAGE. 

Horse posted on 2026-01-21 13:48:07   Reply   Private Reply


#2: Pinguinite    To: Horse (#0)

Yesterday's drop was probably fueled by Trump announcing tariffs against European countries that objected to his Greenland idea.  Crypto dropped for that reason, then rose again after Trump said he was just kidding.

I'm really getting PO'd at Trump as he's been just a wrecking ball for the financial markets.  He's costing ME money.

Pinguinite posted on 2026-01-22 02:21:07   Reply   Private Reply


#3: Esso    To: Pinguinite (#2)

You scared me, I looked at my brokerage and IRA accounts, they're up 35% since last April when I wrote it down for some reason.
I didn't do a deep dive, but I think Exxon-Mobil (XOM) is a big part of it. Pfizer (PFE) seems pretty stagnant unless they split or something.
I know I did well on the metals, probably doubled in a year. (I just remembered, I have gold and silver ETFs in one of my accounts, as well as Dow, S&P and Nasdaq ETFs).
I got into gold & silver at $904 and $9 in 2009-10, during the crash back then. A 5x and 10x return over 15+ years isn't great, but I'll take it.
Most of the gains were probably in the last few years, I think. It languished for a long time, but I was never out-of-the-money.

I can't believe I actually dodged a bullet. The last stock trade I made was when it became obvious that the 2020 election was stolen.
I bought another block of XOM at $40, it quickly went over $100 then fell back just below 100. It's $134 today.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.

It'd be interesting to see what Kimmy's brokers have been doing for her, but it's none of my business unless she wants me to see it.

That reminds me, I should've made arrangements to get her non-descript, white 4-door Toyota/Nissan/Kia/Hyundai into Chip to go over it before the weather turned to shit.
After the weather gets down to around zero tonight, it'll take a month to get an appointment with him.

Esso posted on 2026-01-22 14:54:52   Reply   Private Reply


#4: Pinguinite    To: Esso (#3)

I'm speaking of the crypto scene.  I'ts been down for many months and just started to rise again when it inexplicable dropped back down some 15%.  Inexplicable until Trump's tariff threat was revealed.

We don't need Greenland.  The "defense" claim is a farce.  At least he's starting to admit that it's about the mineral wealth, just like he admitted Venezuela was about oil, not drugs.

Pinguinite posted on 2026-01-23 10:55:12   Reply   Private Reply