The price of each metal is not going up. The measure of the number of fiats needed to buy the metals will grow ever more as each country’s fiat issuance becomes increasingly debased. That is when the power of holding gold and silver will be felt the most.

While the world gets bogged down in a financial quagmire, created solely by the globalists but to be suffered by the masses, those with gold and silver will fare best during the worst of what is to come - and the gold and silver markets are sending a clear message as outlined in the charts below.

Last Friday, you witnessed exactly what happens to paper assets when people lose confidence and panic. You also witnessed a preview of what is yet to come: days of gold rallying $100, silver $1. There will be more of those days, and even in greater gains. Keep buying and personally holding physical gold and silver.

Our view remains unchanged: continue to buy and hold as much physical gold and silver as your situation/comfort zone allows. Silver should continue to outperform gold.

Friday’s impressive rally screamed Buy! Now we get to see if the market will deliver on its message of apparent strength.

It should be evident that one need not be a so-called Wall Street expert to make a self-determination about what to do in the markets and when. The information is always available in real-time, and in our mind the logic is inescapable when one begins to apply a little (or a lot of) common sense to what the market is revealing.

The rally in both gold and silver has seen a significant change in market behavior, and these changes are telling the world that the decline from 2011 may have ended.

There has been clear change in developing market activity that is favorable for gold and silver, both having the best and strongest recent rally since the 2011 highs. The rallies were also accompanied by the strongest volume increases over the past few years, another positive sign.

We are market realists, and the reality is neither gold nor silver are about to launch into the upper reaches of higher prices for the near term but the reasons for such happening are beginning to be more credible so it might occur in the second half of the year.

Do what the smartest country on the globe is doing (China) and buy and hold as much physical gold and silver as you can. Why? Because you will be up the proverbial creek without a paddle if you don't have either metal.