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David Morgan: $50 Silver Breakout & GameStop-Style Short Squeeze Ahead

Aug 27, 2025
David Morgan, publisher of The Morgan Report and a silver expert, dives into the fascinating dynamics of silver as the ultimate "underdog metal". He shares insights on its tiny market size, which makes it prone to explosive price movements, especially as silver approaches a critical $50 breakout. Morgan illustrates silver's unique dual role in industry and finance, comparing it with gold, and discusses the historical context that shapes current market trends, including parallels to previous manias like GameStop.
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ANECDOTE

How Morgan Became Obsessed With Silver

  • David Morgan traced his silver obsession back to studying banking, fractional reserve, and the Hunt Brothers' 1980 mania.
  • He also says silver appealed to him as the historical 'underdog' monetary metal.
INSIGHT

Silver Isn't Treated As Reserve Money

  • Silver lacks gold's reserve/central-bank status, so it misses steady institutional buying pressure.
  • Cultural language and semantics also bias silver negatively compared with gold.
INSIGHT

Industrial Breadth Versus Low Price

  • Silver has far more industrial uses than gold and thousands of applications, second only to oil.
  • Yet silver trades at a tiny fraction of gold's price, revealing a structural mismatch between use and valuation.
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