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Silver is rigged, says Matthew Piepenburg, and the people doing it have already admitted it in print. In this conversation with Jesse Day of Commodity Culture he names the mechanism – margin hikes that force leveraged longs to sell – traces the confession back to a gold-banking insider, and then explains why he thinks the thing that finally breaks the market will not be metal at all, but the debt hiding behind the artificial intelligence boom.

Piepenburg is a partner at Von Greyerz in Switzerland and spent his earlier career trading risk assets. He breaks silver’s 2026 fall into its parts: concentrated short positions at a handful of bullion banks, exchange margin increases, trend-following funds hitting the same stop-losses at the same moment, and capital pulled away by high-yielding bonds and an AI bubble.

He walks through the 1980 Hunt corner, the five margin increases in two weeks in 2011, and the January 2026 crash, then turns to what ends it: a multi-year supply deficit, a physical delivery squeeze, and China’s push to price metals off real supply and demand rather than paper claims. The second half is his AI debt bomb – over a trillion dollars of hyperscaler capital spending, and a data-centre financing structure that keeps tens of billions of debt off the balance sheet.

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