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in the U.S. since 1973
INVESTMENT RARITIES INCORPORATED
Was founded in 1973 by Jim Cook, and has since grown to be one of the nation’s leading silver and gold dealers. In the 50+ years of service, IRI has logged 400,000 transactions for 250,000 customers equaling $3 billion sold and delivered.
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FROM THE DESK OF JIM COOK
JIM COOK INTERVIEWS ED STEER
Ed Steer is one of the foremost silver and gold analysts in the country. He publishes a newsletter that closely follows the price movements of precious metals in the futures market. He was a student of silver analyst Ted Butler for fifteen years – and is now his disciple and advocate.
Cook: Would you agree that you and I both learned a lot from Ted Butler?
Steer: We learned everything about the silver and gold price management scheme in the COMEX futures market through Ted. There are no facts out in the public domain about these two precious metals that didn’t go through him first, whether people are prepared to acknowledge that fact or not.
INSIGHTS from TED BUTLER
Great Silver Price Volatility Ahead
This is the last thing Ted Butler wrote for us. He was trying to summarize what he saw happening in silver. His illness was making it difficult to write, but he did a good job of conveying his final thoughts.
Price volatility in silver has been heavy recently, but two conditions point to much greater price volatility ahead. Currently, bearish futures-market positions on the COMEX feature an unprecedented short position by a single managed-money trader of some 13,000 contracts (65 million ounces). This is combined with a heavy commercial short position. The short position by a big managed-money trader is particularly concerning since it is larger than what the largest silver mines produce in a year and is clearly not a hedged position, but purely speculative, appearing to violate speculative position limits. While bearish on its face, should this big short get caught in a squeeze, all heck could develop on the upside.
