The bullion banks are out of ammo. The different tactics they use to suppress precious metals prices, particularly silver, have been expended. First they clobbered gold to keep investors from getting aggressive on silver. When that didn’t work they “dropped the second shoe” (as I posted they would an hour before) when they increased silver margins by 18% last week. Now they have nothing left and are reduced to allowing gold to rise to distract investors from piling into silver. As Holmes would say to Watson, “the game’s a foot”!