The US economy is not recovering as claimed so the US dollar is under renewed pressure, additional QE is more fuel for the fire. The debt has not been reduced but increased by deficit budgets. Unemployment and other reporting statistics are continually fudged. With that pressure dollar holders are branching of into PMs and silver being the more favoured due to shortages. Recent increased silver deliveries and withholding from market is a sure sign. "The Boys" are forced to dig deeper into pockets for the real stuff and printing more paper metals to suppress the PM prices but it does not seem to help much for the green back. Actually the deeper they have to dig to deliver the real metal the faster the end will come. As stated here earlier, the larger suppliers of the metals have to wake up and work together to delay deliveries and cause this house of cards to fall sooner. Conclusion: This could be the begining of the end that was prophesized for the last few years. This BAD is actually quite GOOD from a particular perspective.