If you have followed the gold or silver markets for any period of time, you already know that they are manipulated by western governments that try to hold prices artificially low. This has gone on for some time now, but I found the following comments from commentator Jeff Nielson to be a good reminder of just how close we could be to the breakout from this period of history.

Yes, markets can remain irrational for a long time (especially manipulated markets). However, they don't remain “irrational” forever. And the longer that price-fixing keeps silver at an artificial price – far below its real value – the more rapidly that silver will be over-consumed. It is this simple reality that guarantees to investors that the longer they have to wait before silver begins its real “bull market” the more radically we can expect the price to spike, once price-fixing fails (as it has on every occasion, throughout history).

As for when this takes place, with both gold and silver having quadrupled in price this decade, it is obvious that this price-fixing is already failing and on the verge of collapse. This is the expected consequence of the Manipulators running out of both gold and silver to short/dump onto the market. Given these parameters, I am firmly convinced that this wait will be both relatively short, and extremely lucrative for those with the vision to take advantage of this opportunity.