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Bill’s Commentary:
“About time!”
Trump Proposes Investigation into Autism and [Chemtrail] “Sprays”
President Trump recently said that 15 years ago, only one in 10,000 or 1 in 20,000 children were diagnosed with autism, but now the rate is one in 34 children have autism. While the numbers vary, the rate of autism rose after drug manufacturers were given legal immunity from lawsuits over vaccine injury in 1986.
Summary by JW Williams
President Trump recently said that 15 years ago, only one in 10,000 or 1 in 20,000 children were diagnosed with autism, but now the rate is one in 34 children have autism. The autism rate rose after drug manufacturers were given legal immunity from lawsuits over vaccine injury in 1986.
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 was signed into law by United States President Ronald Reagan as part of a larger health bill that prevents people who have suffered vaccine injuries or death, and their families, from suing drug manufacturers in court. Instead, there is a special federal court that was set up to compensate vaccine victims, however, it is a corrupt system that often denies victims’ claims. After drug companies received immunity from prosecution in 1986, the number of vaccines on the CDC’s vaccine schedule had increased dramatically. Autism has also risen dramatically. There are currently over 70 vaccine doses on the CDC’s Vaccine Schedule. Many of the vaccines are required for children to attend school.
Bill’s Commentary:
“In the not too distant future, real estate by and large will become a liability rather than an asset…”
‘I feel trapped’: how home ownership has become a nightmare for many Americans
“I bought my home in a hurry in 2020,” said Meg, 60, an office manager from Maryland. “It was less expensive to take on a mortgage than to keep paying ever-increasing rents for my college-student daughter and me.”
Now housing costs consume 50% of her income.
Although Meg said she felt “grateful to have our little house”, the purchase has lost its luster. Her aging row home needs various repairs, while other costs associated with home ownership rose continually too.
Bill’s Commentary:
“I agree Wolfgang, but what no one is talking about is what happens when this money no longer hits the streets? Bill”
On Monday, February 24, 2025 at 05:30:21 PM PST, Wolfgang wrote:
Bill,
We need a clawback and get $5 trillion, for starters, back into the Treasury's coffers.
Or give it back to the taxpayers.
Wolfgang
“Give Us Back Our F**king Money” – How Washington Stole Everything…
Every person in your family or community living on nuts and bolts and berries has had his life stolen by the bureaucratic blob.
And, we are going to get it all back.
So essentially the entire town of Washington, D.C. has been stealing. The anomalies are those who are not stealing. $4.7 trillion, almost impossible to trace, represents two-thirds of the annual U.S. budget. And if it’s happening in the U.S., it is happening everywhere: France, Canada, the U.K., Germany, where budgetary processes are probably even more opaque than those of the U.S.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Is silver pricing manipulated? AI gives an answer.”
How much manipulation in silver’s price can now be identified?
Identifying the exact extent of manipulation in silver’s price is challenging because it involves a mix of verifiable data, allegations, and market dynamics that are not fully transparent. However, based on available evidence, expert analyses, and historical cases, we can outline some key areas where manipulation has been identified and discuss how much it might influence silver prices as of February 22, 2025.
Evidence of Manipulation
- Historical Legal Cases:
- JPMorgan Chase (2020): JPMorgan paid a $920 million fine after admitting to “spoofing” in the silver and gold futures markets from 2008 to 2016. Spoofing involves placing large fake orders to manipulate prices, then canceling them. This case confirmed that a major player artificially influenced silver prices, though the exact impact on price levels is hard to quantify.
- Deutsche Bank (2016): Paid $38 million to settle silver price-fixing claims, suggesting coordinated efforts to suppress prices. Other banks, like HSBC and UBS, have faced similar allegations, pointing to a pattern among bullion banks.
- These cases show manipulation occurred, but they cover specific periods and tactics, not a continuous, measurable effect.
- Futures Market Discrepancies:
- The silver futures market, particularly on the COMEX, trades vastly more “paper silver” than physical silver exists. For example, posts on X and analyses note daily trading volumes of 384 million to 527 million ounces in 2024, compared to annual global production of around 800-850 million ounces. This suggests a ratio of paper to physical silver as high as 100:1 or more, allowing price suppression through oversupply of contracts not backed by metal.
- Critics argue this disconnect keeps prices below what supply and demand fundamentals would dictate, though no precise dollar amount of suppression is universally agreed upon.
- Physical Demand vs. Price:
- Silver has been in a supply deficit for several years (e.g., four years as of early 2025 per X posts), with industrial use (like solar panels) and investment demand rising. Yet, prices remain relatively low—around $32.50 per ounce recently—compared to historical highs near $50 (1980, 2011). Analysts like those at The Jerusalem Post and Sprott Money suggest this gap reflects ongoing suppression, potentially by $10-$20 per ounce or more, though this is speculative.
- Regulatory Findings:
- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) investigated silver manipulation from 2008 to 2013 but found no “viable basis” for enforcement action at that time. However, later fines and settlements indicate manipulation persists, just not always provable in real-time.
Quantifying the Impact
Quantifying manipulation’s exact effect on silver prices is difficult due to:
- Opaque Markets: The COMEX and London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) lack full transparency on trading positions and physical inventories.
- Multiple Factors: Prices reflect not just manipulation but also macroeconomic conditions (e.g., interest rates, dollar strength), industrial demand, and investor sentiment.
- Estimates Vary: Some analysts, like David Morgan, suggest prices could be 50% or more below their “true” value (implying $50+ per ounce today), while others see suppression as more modest, perhaps $5-$10 per ounce, based on historical spoofing impacts and futures leverage.
A rough estimate from market observers:
- Short-Term Manipulation: Tactics like spoofing or large futures dumps can cause daily or weekly price swings of 5-10% (e.g., $1.50-$3 at current levels), as seen in “morning manipulation slams” noted on X.
- Long-Term Suppression: If physical shortages and deficits were fully priced in without paper market interference, some argue silver could trade at $40-$100 per ounce, based on gold-to-silver ratios (historically 15:1 to 60:1, now ~90:1) and industrial scarcity. This implies a suppression range of $7.50 to $67.50 per ounce, though the higher end is highly speculative.
Current Identification as of February 22, 2025
As of now:
- Confirmed Manipulation: Past legal cases prove manipulation lowered prices during specific periods (e.g., 2008-2016), but current instances are harder to pin down without new convictions.
- Ongoing Suspicions: High paper-to-physical ratios and price resistance despite deficits strongly suggest continued interference. Posts on X highlight daily volumes dwarfing deliveries (e.g., 437 million ounces traded vs. 269 COMEX deliveries on February 12, 2025), reinforcing this view.
- Magnitude: Experts and sentiment on platforms like X suggest suppression could range from 20% to over 100% of the current price ($6.50-$32.50+), but no definitive data pegs it precisely. The most conservative, evidence-based estimate might be 10-30% ($3-$10 per ounce), aligning with past spoofing effects and market anomalies.
Conclusion
While manipulation in silver’s price is identifiable through legal precedents, futures market distortions, and supply-demand mismatches, its exact scale remains elusive. As of February 22, 2025, the best estimate—balancing evidence and skepticism—is that manipulation may suppress prices by $3-$10 per ounce in the short term, with potential for greater long-term effects if systemic issues unravel. However, without real-time transparency or new regulatory action, this remains an educated guess rather than a proven figure. The silver market’s complexity demands ongoing scrutiny to refine these estimates.
Bill’s Commentary:
“I would have guessed much more?”
How Much Money Exists in the World Per Person?
This chart explores a hypothetical question: how much money exists in the world per person?
Defining “all the world’s money” is complex, with multiple ways to calculate it. Here, we use global M2 money supply at the end of 2024, sourced from CEIC Data.
See the final section for an explanation of this metric, what it measures, and why economists track it.
Population data is sourced from the UN World Population Prospects 2024.
Bill’s Commentary:
“On Ukraine”
The First Draft of the Ukraine War’s History
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, by Scott Horton. The Libertarian Institute. 690 pp.
Provoked is a monumental work, an essential guide to understanding how the United States and Russia came to face off in an horrific bloodletting on Russia’s border a generation after the Soviet Union abandoned communism. Scott Horton seems to have read every published English-language source bearing on the deterioration of Washington’s relationship with Moscow, and has produced an acerbic, polemical, factually dense first draft of history.
His book is long (more than 1,200 pages in the Kindle edition), and would have benefited from forceful editing. He could have pinpointed more emphatically critical tipping points. Assuming there are diplomatic historians in decades to come, those with access to classified governmental records will produce more comprehensive and nuanced accounts. Still, Provoked is a book America needs now—for its scathing portrayal of a bipartisan Washington establishment that propelled the march towards a war which has wrecked Ukraine and resulted in an estimated million military casualties on both sides.
Bill’s Commentary:
“The Western press would have you to believe Vladimir Putin is a mad man. I have tried to post as many of his speeches as I have found because he is not a mad man.”
Bill’s Commentary:
“A very good weekend piece from Erik”
The latest from Erik –
- Historical Legal Cases:
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Things must be way worse than official statistics tell us if even Hooters is filing?”
Hooters in Talks for Potential Bankruptcy in Coming Months
Bill’s Commentary:
“TRUE STORY!”
LBMA Offered to Censor BullionStar
When BullionStar repeatedly called on the LBMA to uphold its own mission – reforming for integrity and tranparency in the precious metals market – how do you think LBMA responded?
Did LBMA commit to clearer reporting of unencumbered gold? Did LBMA commit to end the price manipulation?
No, instead LBMA sent an operative and his secretary to BullionStar’s Bullion Retail Center in Singapore to inform us that there are inaccuracies in our coverage. The secretary’s assigned task, we were told, was to read our blog posts as soon as published!
Bill’s Commentary:
“Grok 3 answers a question”
Is it possible the president Trump will put Silver and Gold back into support of our currency, and if so, how high could the prices of physical go if this was implemented?
Whether President Donald Trump, as the 47th President of the United States, will reinstate a gold and silver standard to back the U.S. dollar is a speculative question that depends on a mix of political, economic, and practical factors. Let’s explore the possibility and the potential impact on physical gold and silver prices if such a policy were implemented, based on historical context, Trump’s statements, and economic considerations.
The latest from USA Watchdog –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Bullshit…”
The latest from USA Watchdog –
Bill’s Commentary:
“Erik with excerpts”
The latest from Erik –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Were you wondering who Scott Bessent is? This is an interview from 2023, well worth your time to understand his thoughts.”
Bill’s interview with Jon Dowling (Also posted under Interviews)
Bill’s Commentary:
“Confessions of an economic hitman, part 2?”
China promises Latin America ‘trustworthy’ ties as Trump lays out demands
BEIJING: China will always be Latin America’s “trustworthy” friend and partner, its foreign minister told his Bolivian counterpart, as Beijing and Washington look to firm their respective footholds in a region historically under the US sphere of influence.
“Latin America is the home of the Latin American people, and is not any country’s ‘backyard,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a meeting at the United Nations on Tuesday (Feb 18), according to a statement from his ministry.
China wants to “continuously elevate the China-Bolivia strategic partnership”, Wang told Bolivia’s Foreign minister Celinda Sosa.
Bill’s Commentary:
“From Yale? Didn’t Yale make the Covid shot mandatory for their students?”
Yale scientists link Covid vaccines to alarming new syndrome causing ‘distinct biological changes’ to body
Experts from Yale University have discovered an alarming syndrome linked to the mRNA Covid vaccines.
The previously-unknown condition – dubbed ‘post-vaccination syndrome’ – appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus and exercise intolerance.
Some sufferers also show distinct biological changes, including differences in immune cells and the presence of coronavirus proteins in their blood, years after taking the shot.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“A Republic, if you can keep it…”
The latest from Erik –
Bill’s Commentary:
“This was 40 years ago…”
Bill’s Commentary:
“Even if it is completely full, what about “ownership” and actual title?”
DOGE prepares gold reserve ‘audit’ after top Republican invites Elon Musk to review Fort Knox
Sen. Rand Paul is inviting Elon Musk to come to his state of Kentucky to review the largest reserves of gold in the U.S.A libertarian X account with 2 million followers asked the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to set his sights on Fort Knox to make sure the U.S. supply of gold is still in its reserves.
Musk questioned why the gold supply is not reviewed every year, leading to speculation that he could look into the military base with the fortified vault full of U.S. gold.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Not exactly an apology but, at least a step in the right direction.”
Trump orders end to federal funding for schools that require Covid vaccines
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order halting federal funds for schools that require students to be vaccinated against coronavirus before they can attend classes in person.
Trump’s administration has already taken steps to end coronavirus vaccine requirements at the federal level, including for green card applicants, and reinstated service members who were discharged for refusing the vaccine.
The order states that “[s]ome school districts and universities continue to coerce children and young adults into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by conditioning their education on it” and warns that others could re-implement such mandates.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Is this a polite way of saying they ran out?”
Korea Minting and Security Printing Corp. Halts Gold Bar Sales Amid Hoarding Concerns
With international gold prices soaring, Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corp. (KOMSCO) has decided to suspend gold bar sales. The surge in demand for gold as a safe-haven asset amid the expanding U.S.-led trade war has driven the decision, and KOMSCO has stated that it cannot predict when sales will resume.
According to financial industry sources on Feb. 11, KOMSCO has sent an official notice to commercial banks requesting the suspension of gold bar sales. A company official explained, “With gold prices skyrocketing, we are unable to secure gold raw materials, leading to the suspension of gold bar sales. We do not know when we will be able to resume sales.”
International gold prices have continued to climb. According to Reuters, the spot price of gold surged to $2,911.30 per troy ounce on Feb. 10 (local time), setting a new yearly high for the seventh time this year. Gold prices, which jumped 27 percent last year ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, have maintained an upward trend this year. As of this date, gold has risen by 11 percent this year.
Bill’s Commentary:
“You did not think this could happen?”
https://twitter.com/Mark_R_Mitchell/status/1890569939112587621
The latest from USA Watchdog –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“What a shock!!!”
FDA Misled the Judiciary about Pfizer’s Vaccine Documents
On December 6, 2024, a federal judge ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release documents related to the emergency use authorisation of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. These documents had been hidden from public view.
The legal battle traces back to September 2021, when attorney Aaron Siri filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on behalf of the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency. The plaintiffs sought access to the vast trove of documents the FDA relied on to approve Pfizer’s vaccine.
Initially, the FDA proposed a slow release schedule. In November 2021, the agency stated it would release just 500 pages per month—a pace that would have stretched the full disclosure process to 75 years.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“So, which agency is responsible for chemtrails?”
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1889884834149048819
Bill’s Commentary:
“This falls under the category of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”…”
Ray Dalio to the Trump administration: Cut debt now or face an ‘economic heart attack’
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio issued a fresh warning about the U.S. economy, warning of dire consequences if the Trump administration does not cut the country’s debt.
“It’s like if I was a doctor and I was speaking with you about your condition, I would say to you, this is now very, very serious. All of these are major problems,” Dalio told CNBC’s Dan Murphy at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. “What you need to do is cut your deficit from about 7.5% of GDP to 3% of gross domestic product, and you can do that. There are certain things that you can do that cut it in a certain way that’ll make it much healthier, so the real problem is a political problem.”
The U.S. gross national debt stood at approximately $36.22 trillion as of Feb. 11, with $28.8 trillion of that as debt held by the public in the form of securities owned by individuals, corporations, state or local governments, Federal Reserve banks, foreign governments, and other entities outside the U.S. government.
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Bill is interviewed by Liberty and Finance (Also posted under Interviews)
“The Great Reset Is Here: Dollar Rejected, Gold Stockpiled | Bill Holter“
Bill Holter discusses significant global economic shifts, including the movement of precious metals from London to COMEX and nations repatriating gold to protect themselves from potential financial instability. He warns that the current economic conditions are a precursor to an impending “great reset” and suggests that the U.S. may have to scramble for gold as global trade dynamics change. Holter also highlights the possibility of the U.S. monetizing its balance sheet through the revaluation of gold. He points out the collapse in real estate transaction volumes and the hidden inflation that is beginning to affect the average person, making basic housing unaffordable. He emphasizes the importance of preparing for these changes in the new economic reality.
The latest from USA Watchdog –
Bill’s Commentary:
“Flash Gordon explains the Flintstones?”
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1889710222165389550
Bill’s Commentary:
“Is this what the BLM riots would have looked like without the “funding” they received?”
Bill’s Commentary:
“Pastor Stanley reminds us of wartime ramifications.”
War and Famine Go Hand in Hand and it Will Be Larvae and Cricket Sandwiches for Those Who Haven’t Planned
Much is being made in the mainstream media (MSM) of the impeding famine in certain parts of the world. Abundant amounts of the blame from the MSM are being credited to President Trump’s shuttering of all foreign aid for 90 days so that the new administration can get a handle on the already monumental alleged abuses that have been uncovered in US agency spending. USAID is in the crosshairs; international organizations that receive funding from this agency are now apparently wondering aloud how they are going to feed those who come to them for help. (Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said an exception allows emergency food assistance-if you want to help feed those in the Sudan please consider Samaritan’s Purse).
On February 6, CBS News aired ‘How shuttering USAID could impact famine, lives in Sudan’with the accompanying caption:
…’President Trump’s efforts to shutter the humanitarian agency, USAID, could have drastic impacts on places like war-torn Sudan. The stoppage could mean less medicine for the sick, fewer first responders and more famine. Warning, the images in this story are graphic.’…(CBS News)
Bill’s Commentary:
“The “math” does not lie…”
US Budget Deficit Hits A Record $840 Billion In First 4 Months Of 2025; Interest On Debt Hits Record $1.2 Trillion
First the good news: Elon Musk’s DOGE is going through government spending with a fine-toothed comb, slashing a million here, a billion there.
The bad news: at the rate it is going, DOGE will need a few hundred years to make a tangible impact, because as the Treasury reported earlier today, in January the US government spent a near-record $642 billion, a 29% increase from the $500 billion in January…
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