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Graham Summers: The interventions against gold and silver aren't working anymore
By Graham Summers
Phoenix Capital Research, Charlottesville, Virginia
Friday, January 2, 2026
Panic is beginning to show up in the financial system.
As I noted earlier this week, rumors are swirling that a large, systemically important financial institution is being forced to liquidate its precious metal short positions. We get strong evidence of this from the CME Group, which has suspiciously raised margins on precious metals futures trading for the second time in one week. (First on December 26 and again on December 31.)
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The CME raises margins in this fashion whenever it begins to lose control of the precious metals market and is desperate to "flush out" a lot of positions. That it has done this twice in the last week alone suggests us someone big is likely on the wrong side of the precious metals trade.
The interventions aren't working either. ...
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