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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is not just copper and silver etc., but also the fact that paper trades of commodities are sometimes getting disconnected prices from actual physical trades where the metal switches hands. Implying that traders are scared that lots of other traders and market makers actually don't have the metals they claim to have on paper.