🚨 SILVER ALERT! - You BEST HEAR How This Happens! 🦍🦍 (Gold Price and Precious Metals NEWS Update)

August 16, 2026

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Silver's Supply Trap and the Case for $180

Former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prinz has predicted that the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)—the central bank of the world's central banks—will classify silver as a tier-one asset, a move she believes could send prices to $180 per ounce next year. Prinz, who has addressed the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, and the IMF, argues that the same reclassification applied to gold several years ago was a major factor behind gold's sustained rally. If silver follows, she sees $120 silver by the end of this year and $6,000 gold.

The Supply Side Is Locked In

The most structurally compelling argument in the episode concerns silver's supply constraints. A contributor on X, cited by the host, laid out the timeline problem: from the first discovery of a silver deposit to the first finished ounce of metal takes an average of 15 years. Mines that began production between 2020 and 2023 required nearly 18 years. Nine out of ten exploration projects never become mines at all; only one in a thousand exploration efforts ever produces real metal. After discovery come feasibility studies, environmental reviews, water rights negotiations, and local community approvals—processes that routinely stretch into year fourteen. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent before the first shovel hits the ground, and many companies go bankrup

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What you'll learn

1 (01:02) **Episode Introduction and Nomi Prinz's $180 Silver Prediction** - The host introduces the episode's bullish thesis for gold and silver, centering on a prediction by ex-Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prinz that silver could reach $180.
2 (06:33) **Jesse Colombo's Eight-Year Bull Market Thesis** - Technical analyst Jesse Colombo's analysis is presented, arguing that the current precious metals bull market is in its early stages and has at least eight more years to run.
3 (11:31) **Host's Short-Term Price Prediction for Silver** - The host shares his own forecast for silver prices over the coming week and through the end of the year.
4 (13:27) **Rashad's Short-Term Silver Price Targets** - The host shares the "wildly optimistic" technical analysis from Rashad, who has been very accurate in 2025.
5 (19:37) **CME's 24/7 Silver Trading and Lynette Zang's Warning** - The host discusses the CME's announcement to trade silver futures 24/7 and analyzes its implications with commentary from analyst Lynette Zang.
6 (24:27) **The 15-Year Silver Supply Trap** - A video segment explains the critical supply-side reality: new silver mine supply is essentially impossible to bring online before 2040.
7 (29:40) **Exploding Industrial Demand from AI** - The host presents data on the rapidly increasing industrial demand for silver, specifically from artificial intelligence infrastructure.

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Show Notes

As record-high stock market valuations collide with collapsing retail sales, plummeting lumber prices, and a stalling real estate market, smart money is rotating out of the fragile paper economy and into real assets. Top experts like former Goldman Sachs Managing Director Nomi Prins and Lynette Zang warn that a massive structural silver shortage—driven by decades of underfunded mining development and explosive artificial intelligence demand—is exposing severe COMEX paper price manipulation. With analysts setting massive price targets of $90 to $180 per ounce, silver is rapidly evolving into an indispensable, 24/7 global tier-1 asset. Demand for gold mining stocks through the GDX is surging as investors rush to capitalize on the precious metals supercycle before the paper age collapses. SILVER and GOLDhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpCsTbtWwMeruS1YlOoWey5wzIFwiofGs 🧼 25% OFF! Sugar Mountain Trading 🧼Handcrafted curated soaps, shampoo and lotions from Mount Vernon, Kentucky https://sugarmountaintrading.com/🚨 DISCOUNT CODE: RON25 🚨➡️ BUY Silver from FIRST MINT:🚨 DISCOUNT Code: VIPRB 🚨https://firstmint.com/ "From Mine to Mint"🔴 Learn MORE about First Mining Gold:https://firstmininggold.com/or contact [email protected]🔒BUY a Ledger Crypto Security Device: https://shop.ledger.com/?r=7ffa4498bb22&tracker=MY_TRACKER BUY DirtyMan SAFE ✅ https://www.dirtymansafe.com/ 🔥 Use discount code: RON10 for 10% off 🔥 🔥 Or use this DirtyMan link: https://affiliates.dirtymansafe.com/ronsbasement for 10% off and a free gift 🔥 👍DONATE to HOPE WALKS:https://hopewalks.org/Mailing Address: RONS BASEMENT LLC 36 FOUR SEASONS SHOPPING CTR Stall #117 CHESTERFIELD, MO 63017 CONTACTS: [email protected] ⭐FOLLOW ON 𝕏 (Formerly Twitter)⭐: https://twitter.com/BasementRon ⭐LISTEN ON SPOTIFY⭐: https://open.spotify.com/show/3AcS5O5y8GrnBEdsL92VTI⭐LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST⭐: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/silver-gold-investing-global-economics/id1741078463⭐FOLLOW ON RUMBLE:⭐: https://rumble.com/user/RONSBASEMENT🌟You Can Donate To RONS BASEMENT: https://www.paypal.me/RONSBASEMENT THANK YOU! RONS BASEMENT LLC is sponsored by First Mint and is a proud owner of several of their outstanding silver minted products. Ron is sponsored by First Mining Gold and has owned the stock for over 3 years. Any information shared in this video should not be construed as investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any company stock, meme coin or any other investment product (informational purposes only). Ron may receive compensation from affiliate links and discount codes provided. ***Informational purposes only. Do not buy or sell anything, make any type of investment decision, adopt a puppy, get engaged, or do anything based upon the information I share with you.***SILVER SPOT PRICEGOLD AND SILVERSILVER STACKINGSILVER NEWSGOLD SPOT PRICESPOT SILVERSILVER BULLIONSILVER SPOT PRICE TODAYGOLD SPOT PRICE TODAYINVESTING GOLDPRECIOUS METALS PRICESKITCOPRICE OF GOLD AND