In January 2025, silver traded as low as $30 per ounce. Yesterday – just twelve months later – it surpassed $93, recording an all-time high. This isn’t a short-lived spike driven by speculation alone – its surge follows tightening physical supply, rising industrial demand, and growing geopolitical influence over critical materials. Its late 2025 rally – shooting from $45/oz on 28 October to $83 just two months later – initially looked like a short burst before dropping immediately after.

But since the New Year, the price run-up has continued, and momentum feels stronger than ever.  So, what’s driving it, and what really happens if it keeps going up? Can the same structures that have kept silver subdued for decades still function if the demand for the physical metal continues to accelerate? [Read More]

At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.