We may be heading into a showdown this fall between paper and physical gold, if the players don't back off on price and allow some growth in inventory.
And as for the always volatile silver, it's got two guns, one for each of you.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception