For decades, global finance operated under a familiar set of rules. When markets got out of line, Western institutions stepped in, tightened leverage, raised margins, and forced prices back into submission. That system worked again and again. But today, something very different is happening in the silver market.
Wall Street’s old tricks are no longer delivering the results they once did. And the latest attempt to rein in silver prices has instead exposed how little control Western financial centers still possess.
In late December, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange deployed one of its most aggressive tools. Margin requirements on silver futures were raised twice in a single week. Traders suddenly needed an additional $7,500 per contract just to stay in the game.
Margins for a standard 5,000-ounce contract jumped from $20,000 to $25,000. Historically, that kind of move would have flattened a rally almost overnight.
And initially, it did. Paper silver prices dropped sharply, sliding from near $80 an ounce down toward $70 as leveraged positions were wiped out.
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