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19. Yes, I'm just starting to read about China stopping silver exports on 1/1/26.

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 03:00 PM

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This reduces worldwide supply, while demand remains status quo, or increases. Hence, it's at least a contributor to the price rise.

I haven't been following gold too much, but I'm going to research what China is doing with that...

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