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Take It With a Pinch of Salt
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- Feb 8, 2026
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Summary
I can’t tell you how many messages I am getting from people about silver. Have I seen this video, read this article, looked at this data, listened to this podcast. JP Morgan is about to go bust, the paper markets are overwhelmed, the price is manipulated, China is setting the real price, this is a reset. And so on. The problem with speculative manias, especially when silver is involved, is that enormous amounts of misinformation get spread, much of it about things you and I, as ordinary investors, can do nothing about. Take it all with a pinch of salt is my advice. What I find interesting is that similar amounts of misinformation are being spread about bitcoin. The price is being manipulated on the futures markets, Strategy is about to go bust, Michael Saylor is this, that and the other, and so on. It’s game over. The only real difference is that one is in a bull market, which may or may not be over, and the other is in a bear market, which may or may not be over. Sentiment for both is at extremes, albeit at different ends of the investment spectrum. During every crypto winter I’ve known, people start to give up on it. The future is no longer what it once was. The tech is flawed. It’s going to zero. It’s not real. It’s a scam invented by the CIA, Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk, take your pick. Again, take it all with a pinch of salt. Remember, neither situation is permanent. There is a case for owning both, and I do in my portfolio. I’d rather bitcoin was $150,000 and more, of course I would. But I’ll take a sportsman’s bet that, from current levels over the next 12 months, bitcoin will outperform gold, and probably silver. I know some readers prefer tangible precious metals. Others prefer bitcoin. Both points of view are fine. Each to their own. But I’m an own-both guy. O…