Estimates say that as much as 20 million ounces of gold has been imported to the US since last November. Prior to this we were always a net exporter.
What does this mean?
So who has $60 billion in cash and a vault to put their gold?
In this video he keeps asking "why are they doing this" but he answers his question without saying it outright. This by itself should let you know how scary this video is.
He gives two basic reasons.
1. Gold is a tier 1 asset along with US dollars. So if you are not buying US debt your central bank still needs a tier 1 asset and this reveals they are moving from US dollars to gold. The thing is he is not talking about Russia, China or Brazil, he is talking about buyers in the US are moving from dollars to gold.
2. Second he keeps asking why the buyers are "standing for delivery" rather than just trading paper? Well that is always a response to instability. They may fear a world war or they may fear the collapse of the US dollar or the collapse of the silver and gold exchanges. Most likely any of those events would trigger the other two as well. So "all of the above" is the most plausible answer.
But then he really emphasizes the fact that we are looking at a short squeeze. He is a gold and silver trader. He says that if he has possession of 5 million ounces of gold in his vault he will also sell 5 million shares short on the exchange so that his position is net neutral. He doesn't care if the price goes up or down.
There are 380 ounces of silver that are sold on paper for every ounce in the vault. So think about that, the likelihood that this is a short squeeze is extremely high. Now suppose you manufacture electronics or solar panels or some other item where you use gold and silver. You are going to make sure you have enough already on hand in the event of a short squeeze.
Finally, the Fed and the US government are both large enough to pull off a short squeeze. I will follow up on this with a second post to explain why people don't try and pull a short squeeze on gold and silver.