FIND THE SIGNAL. DITCH THE NOISE.

What happens when a gold-biased investor invites a priest and hedge fund CIO to challenge the metals trade head-on? A conversation about fear, conviction, value investing, and why even the strongest theses deserve pressure testing.

Gallium rarely makes headlines, yet it plays a critical role in the systems that power modern life, from AI data centers and satellite communications to advanced radar and high-efficiency power electronics. Supply is heavily concentrated, production is tied to complex industrial processes, and recent export controls have exposed just how fragile the chain can be. Understanding gallium means understanding a quiet pressure point in the global economy.

We are not entering a normal market cycle. We are entering a repricing driven by debt saturation, slowing demographics, and a surge in AI-led productivity. In this macro shift, currency dilution, policy pressure, and supply constraints are changing how capital behaves.

Michael Oliver’s core message is that silver isn’t acting like a normal bull market. It’s attempting to create a “new reality”, repricing after decades trapped under a long-term ceiling. The correction he warned about may have been the classic midpoint fakeout seen in past silver surges, and if the rebound holds, the next phase could be where both silver and silver miners surprise investors to the upside.

Gold and silver have just suffered one of their sharpest corrections in decades, and history suggests this may be far more typical than investors realize. By comparing today’s drawdown to the great precious metals bull markets of the 1970s and the 2000s, this article separates emotional panic from historical patterns. The result is a clearer framework for understanding whether this crash marks an end… or a reset.