China’s secret silver pipeline [Video]

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire is joined by Alasdair Macleod to reveal how silver is quietly moved through private channels - largely controlled by China - keeping real supply and demand hidden from the open market.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Start
• 02:20 Andrew introduces Alasdair Macleod
• 03:55 Silver breaks out as warehouse stocks reach critical lows
• 10:55 EFP values distorted; China continues strategic silver stockpiling
• 18:50 Major Asian buyers quietly acquiring precious metals by the billion
• 27:25 Echoes of the 1970s: Historic parallels in gold accumulation
• 32:25 BRICS currency risks and the rise of an East Asian supergroup
• 37:05 What the whales and central banks are really doing behind the scenes
• 43:30 How central bank leasing and double-counting threaten a crisis
• 47:15 The Fed’s covert borrowing of gold from the BIS
• 51:40 Alasdair’s journey: Decades of decoding precious metals market behaviour