Health Ranger - Mike Adams - Global Energy Collapse will Cause Industrial Silver Demand to Plummet Aired: 2026-03-17 Duration: 25:45 === War Threatens Dollar Collapse (12:27) === [00:00:03] Okay, I got to bring you some sobering news here. [00:00:06] This war is messing with everything. [00:00:09] I'm Mike Adams. [00:00:10] Thank you for joining me here. [00:00:12] This is about silver and gold, and I have to change my long-term outlook. [00:00:17] So let me just back up and tell you where I was before this war began. [00:00:22] I had last purchased silver at $76, and I was very happy with that. [00:00:27] And then before that, I had purchased it at $30. [00:00:31] And we were on track. [00:00:34] And if you've heard my podcast, you've heard me do a lot of analysis of industry, you know, the industrial demand for silver, all the different uses, the new battery technology, microchips, data centers, telecom, you know, medical, all that stuff. [00:00:49] The demand for silver was on track to clearly push silver to $150 an ounce this year easily. [00:00:58] I was predicting by summer, and then to $200 an ounce next year. [00:01:03] And that was all based on just rigorous numbers analysis. [00:01:09] There were so many million ounces demanded each year by industry, including the solar panel industry. [00:01:15] And then there was only a certain amount of buffer of how many million ounces already existed above ground, already refined. [00:01:23] And that number keeps shrinking. [00:01:25] And then, you know, the COMAX is playing all kinds of games, etc. [00:01:31] Now we have to rethink the industrial demand side of this. [00:01:37] So as you may recall, my projections earlier were based on continued industrial demand and the fact that, for example, Trump had announced all these data centers and all the Gulf state nations, yes, you know, Qatar, UAE, etc., Saudis, etc., had promised trillions of dollars to build data centers in the USA because they were just rolling in cash, etc. [00:02:03] Well, now three weeks of war started by Trump has changed all of that. [00:02:08] And as a result, we have to reconfigure our trajectory of where silver is going. [00:02:13] And I'm sorry to say, silver is going to be suppressed in price and demand for the duration of this war. [00:02:22] That's my opinion. [00:02:23] That's my conclusion. [00:02:26] So to put it bluntly, because the war is destroying the energy infrastructure of our world, or let's say locking it up with the Strait of Hormuz being blocked and Qatar's gas offline and a lot of oil fields, even in Kuwait, etc., going offline. [00:02:44] This is creating an energy scarcity. [00:02:46] It's going to cause energy prices to go up. [00:02:50] It's causing natural gas shortages in many manufacturing countries such as Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. [00:02:57] And we're already seeing force majeure declared in those countries among certain industries and businesses. [00:03:04] Because of that, there will be less demand for silver. [00:03:09] Less demand for silver for as long as this energy crisis continues. [00:03:15] Now, China will benefit tremendously from this because they want cheaper silver, obviously, because they need to buy silver to put into their solar panels and robots and batteries and cars and electronics and everything else. [00:03:28] So they're probably pretty happy about everybody else getting shut down, you know, because China can still operate. [00:03:35] In fact, Chinese ships, you know, tankers that are headed for China are allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. [00:03:45] In fact, the only ships currently passing through the Strait of Hormuz are those that are allowed by Iran, and that includes ships headed for China, or Iranian flagged vessels, or ships headed for Russia, etc., right? [00:03:58] But not ships going any to the U.S. and its allies in the U.K. and Western Europe or anything like that, or Israel, for God's sake, right? [00:04:05] So China is actually kind of happy about this. [00:04:08] They're going to get their silver cheaper. [00:04:10] But for you and I, if you bought silver and I bought silver, we're going to watch silver go down during this crisis for as long as this lasts. [00:04:18] Now, again, don't blame me. [00:04:20] Blame Trump. [00:04:20] He's the one who started this. [00:04:22] He threw a wrench into the works. [00:04:25] We were on track for record industrial demand. [00:04:28] We were on track for silver, $200 an ounce. [00:04:31] We were on track for all that. [00:04:35] And Trump, he's just decided that he wants to destroy the world's economies. [00:04:40] When you do that, a lot of industry shuts down, it turns out. [00:04:45] Industries that use silver. [00:04:46] So if you want to blame anybody, blame freaking Trump on this. [00:04:50] But there's some good news. [00:04:51] We'll talk about gold here in a second. [00:04:54] But I also want to mention that the Gulf Arab nations that had pledged all this money to the data centers in Texas and other places around the United States, guess what? [00:05:04] They're going to declare force majeure on all those contracts. [00:05:07] At least that's my prediction. [00:05:09] So whatever they pledged and Trump was bragging, there's going to be a trillion dollars here and half a trillion there and another trillion here. [00:05:15] Yeah, nonsense. [00:05:16] All that is going to get nullified, which means those projects are going to get abandoned. [00:05:23] And that means there won't be all those construction jobs and there also won't be all that silver demand for the data centers. [00:05:30] Because I did a whole podcast with David Morgan. [00:05:32] We were talking about all the use of silver in data centers. [00:05:37] It's in the backup power. [00:05:39] It's in the microprocessors. [00:05:40] It's in the GPUs. [00:05:42] It's in the capacitors. [00:05:44] It's in circuit boards, freaking everything. [00:05:46] Data centers use a lot of silver. [00:05:49] That demand is about to just get yanked. [00:05:52] So that's also going to obviously reduce a lot of millions of ounces of silver demand, which is going to cause prices to continue to tumble. [00:06:01] So this is what Trump has set into motion. [00:06:05] And this is a force majeure type of situation. [00:06:09] It's like, man, we were on track and then Trump just had to go set everything on fire. [00:06:15] Dumpster fire. [00:06:17] Now, remember, this is just my opinion. [00:06:20] There are factors that will make silver go up. [00:06:24] It's just that I think that the industrial, the plummeting industrial demand will sort of overpower that for as long as this conflict continues. [00:06:32] In other words, as long as we're not getting the energy to the industries that need to make stuff that use silver, then we're going to see silver prices suppressed. [00:06:42] And that could be, it could be weeks, it could be months, it could be all year, maybe next year. [00:06:50] Who knows? [00:06:50] Just depends on how long this continues. [00:06:52] But some people would say, well, but all of the military spending will cause more demand for silver because there's silver that's using cruise missiles and munitions. [00:07:04] And Trump has ordered the manufacturing of all these, you know, more stealth bombers because they keep getting blown up or whatever. [00:07:11] Or not stealth bombers, F-35s, excuse me. [00:07:14] And the KC-135 tankers, they keep getting blown up, etc. [00:07:18] So Trump is ordering a lot more manufacturing. [00:07:20] And that's going to require a lot more money printing. [00:07:24] And the money printing is going to devalue the dollar, which will tend to raise the price of silver and gold. [00:07:30] And all of that is correct. [00:07:32] No question about it. [00:07:35] And by the way, I think that gold is going to go much higher, even if silver is suppressed because of a lack of industrial demand. [00:07:43] But there's a valid opinion that says, well, the money printing is going to outweigh the drop in demand. [00:07:51] And the military contracts are going to need so much silver that silver is going to continue to climb. [00:07:58] And there's still a shortage, even though industrial demand is falling. [00:08:02] Well, those are all valid arguments. [00:08:04] It's just my assessment is that the drop in industrial demand will outweigh those things until this conflict is resolved. [00:08:12] So am I selling silver? [00:08:14] No. [00:08:15] Heck no. [00:08:16] No way. [00:08:19] Am I selling gold? [00:08:20] No, not on your life. [00:08:23] If anything, I will continue to stack silver and gold because I don't trust the banking system. [00:08:31] This is not a time, in my opinion. [00:08:33] I'm not selling at all. [00:08:35] But I am understanding I'm going to have to wait this out to see silver restored once the world comes back together. [00:08:43] If it does, if it does, we have to assume that we don't know the duration of this war. [00:08:51] I mean, that's a fairly safe assumption. [00:08:53] We don't know the duration. [00:08:54] So we don't know how long it's going to last. [00:08:57] On the good news side, I think gold will continue to go up because gold is rising as oil is rising often, but also as the dollar is destroyed because more and more nations will move away from petro-dollar settlement systems, especially the energy-producing nations, because they're pretty much sick and tired of America now. [00:09:19] So there will be a lot less demand for the petrodollar, which means that the dollar will continue to devalue quite rapidly, which will be reflected in much higher dollar denominations for gold. [00:09:30] So even at the same time that I am predicting that silver prices could be suppressed during this war, my assessment is that gold prices will either hold or rise, you know, trending upward during the duration of the war. [00:09:46] That's my assessment. [00:09:47] So for those of you who have both gold and silver, you know, one of them's going up may compensate for the other going down during the duration of this war. [00:09:58] In terms of the long run, both of them will go up in dollars because the dollar is collapsing. [00:10:04] And if there's anything that's a certainty about this war, it's that the U.S. has lost credibility big time, which means the U.S. dollar has lost credibility. [00:10:12] U.S. treasuries have lost credibility. [00:10:15] Who's going to buy treasuries now? [00:10:17] Nobody in their right mind. [00:10:19] Because nobody can trust that the U.S. can even protect its own military bases in the Middle East. [00:10:25] It can't even protect the host nations, such as Qatar or UAE or Kuwait or Iraq for that matter. [00:10:32] The Fifth Fleet headquarters is totally destroyed. [00:10:35] The airbase is destroyed. [00:10:38] The U.S. can't defend itself, can't defend those nations, can't even defend Israel, can't even reopen the Strait of Hormuz. [00:10:46] The U.S. Navy, I mean, the Abraham Lincoln got hit with drones and set on fire. [00:10:51] And that's why it had to evacuate and it dare not come close again because it might be destroyed. [00:10:56] I'm telling you, the U.S. Navy is on the run. [00:10:59] And the U.S. military has been utterly discredited over the last three weeks. [00:11:05] And this idea, oh, we're going to land a couple thousand Marines on Karg Island. [00:11:11] Now, give me a break. [00:11:12] What is it? [00:11:12] A suicide mission? [00:11:14] You want to have a couple thousand body bags there? [00:11:17] Yeah, dump them there, and they're all going to die. [00:11:21] Or you land them on the southern coastline of Iran, they're all going to die. [00:11:25] Wherever you land them, they're all going to die. [00:11:27] So that's not going to work. [00:11:30] I'm telling you, the U.S. military has been completely discredited. [00:11:34] And it was that threat of military projection of power that actually backed the dollar. [00:11:40] Because nothing else backed the dollar. [00:11:41] Gold didn't back it. [00:11:43] Energy didn't back it. [00:11:44] was the threat of being bombed by the U.S. military that actually backed the dollar. [00:11:51] And that threat has just evaporated. [00:11:54] I mean, yeah, your country might still get bombed, but you can survive it as Iran is proving. [00:12:00] And the bombing itself is only short-term because the U.S. will run out of air defense, will run out of munitions, will run out of, you know, eventually fighter jets or whatever because they keep getting shot out of the sky. [00:12:14] What this is proving is that the dollar is doomed. [00:12:19] If anything, what Trump did is prove that the dollar is doomed and the U.S. military is obsolete. [00:12:26] That's going to, through a variety of mechanisms, lead to the collapse of the dollar. === Expecting Silver Correction Soon (08:54) === [00:12:30] And that will, of course, make both gold and silver extremely valuable in dollars. [00:12:36] But more importantly, they will be a safe haven for assets while people who hold dollars will just lose them. [00:12:43] And that's what's coming. [00:12:44] People have no idea how bad this is going to get. [00:12:47] They really don't know. [00:12:49] They're not prepared for this. [00:12:50] The banking system will implode. [00:12:52] There could be a false flag, cyber attack on the banks to be blamed on Iran while they collapse everything and steal all your money, have a giant bail-in, and then, you know, reconfigure the entire financial system to steal your money and stick it in a CBDC so they can surveil you forever, that kind of thing. [00:13:10] That could happen tomorrow, you know? [00:13:12] No joke. [00:13:14] That's probably where this is headed. [00:13:16] So I don't trust assets in the banking system at all. [00:13:20] I trust physical gold and silver, either in your hands or vaulted outside the banking system. [00:13:26] I trust that. [00:13:28] I don't trust digits on a screen on a banking login page. [00:13:34] Those are just temporary. [00:13:35] Those can vanish just like that. [00:13:37] In fact, I'm going to be watching silver to look for buying opportunities, but I'm going to wait right now. [00:13:44] I'm not buying more right now. [00:13:45] I'm going to watch and see. [00:13:48] Silver could go down to $60. [00:13:51] It could even go into the 50s, believe it or not. [00:13:55] I mean, it's possible. [00:13:56] This is just my opinion. [00:13:58] If it drops anywhere close to $60, I'm going to buy more at that point because I know that in the long run, this is going to be very strong. [00:14:07] And if you bought higher, if you bought at, like I did, $76 or $80 or $90 or $100, hey, guess what? [00:14:16] You still have the same number of ounces of silver. [00:14:19] So hold the silver, wait this out, and hopefully you've got some diversity into gold to help compensate for this in the short term. [00:14:28] Now, there's one other factor here that actually could be very bullish for silver, and that is that the destruction of fossil fuel infrastructure will cause more people to seek out and purchase solar panels and battery storage technology to get more off-grid away from gasoline and diesel fuel. [00:14:46] You're going to see a surge of EV purchases combined with home solar and home power storage. [00:14:54] And that's actually very bullish for silver because silver is a component of all those things. [00:14:59] It's possible that that could outweigh the drop in demand from other aspects or other sectors of industry. [00:15:08] So it's possible that silver might not plunge at all. [00:15:10] I might be totally wrong. [00:15:11] Silver might just sort of have a short-term correction in the 80s and then head back up to 90 and 100. [00:15:18] That's possible. [00:15:20] But there's one thing lacking in this off-grid formula, and that is good battery storage technology. [00:15:29] I don't, personally, I'm not a big fan of the lithium-iron phosphate chemistry. [00:15:34] I'm waiting for the sodium ion chemistry to come online or this new exotic battery technology from Donut Lab, whatever that is. [00:15:41] We don't know yet. [00:15:42] But I'm not a fan of lithium iron phosphate, although that has become dirt cheap. [00:15:49] So it has become ridiculously affordable to buy a large amount of power storage for your home if you know how to put it all together with a charge controller and an inverter and solar panels and transfer switch and all that stuff. [00:16:04] But not everybody's available to do that. [00:16:08] That's a little bit too technical for the average person out there. [00:16:12] I don't anticipate tons of people buying those systems. [00:16:16] And even I'm not buying them yet because I'm waiting for better batteries. [00:16:20] Remember, I promised to share that with you as soon as I have a system that I'm happy with. [00:16:24] I'll share it with you. [00:16:25] But that system hasn't come into existence yet, unfortunately. [00:16:30] So I'm still waiting. [00:16:32] And we'll see where this goes. [00:16:35] But anyway, I'm going to wrap this up. [00:16:37] Bottom line, I am expecting a correction in silver due to a drop in industrial demand during the duration of this war and for a few months after because it'll take a few months for energy to come back online. [00:16:53] Let's hope for peace. [00:16:54] Let's hope this war ends soon, although I don't think that's the case. [00:16:59] But if it were to end soon, and we could turn this around pretty quickly, and these industries could get back online. [00:17:04] And remember, a lot of these industries need helium to function, such as chipmaking and lithography needs helium. [00:17:11] And a lot of industries need natural gas, obviously, for the energy. [00:17:15] And, you know, helium supplies are cut off about a third of the supplies for the world. [00:17:19] And natural gas is also cut off 20 to 30 percent of the world's supply. [00:17:24] So that's bad for industry. [00:17:27] It just is. [00:17:28] It's just cause and effect. [00:17:29] So until that gets reversed, I don't see industry coming back online. [00:17:33] I don't see silver demand returning until these industries are back online. [00:17:38] So if you want to see silver prices go up, tell Trump to stop the freaking war. [00:17:45] Bring our boys home. [00:17:46] Get us out of the Middle East. [00:17:48] Stop fighting Israel's wars and bleeding and dying for Israel and ruining our economy at the same time and screwing with industry. [00:17:56] Bring us home. [00:17:57] Bring our boys home. [00:17:58] Get us out of the Middle East and focus on innovation and research and design and lowering energy prices in America. [00:18:09] That will help industry. [00:18:10] That will create more demand for copper and silver and zinc and aluminum and all kinds of things. [00:18:17] Oh, by the way, aluminum smelters are also offline now because of the lack of energy. [00:18:23] So aluminum is starting to get shut down. [00:18:25] That's not good. [00:18:27] You know, next is going to be the automobile makers. [00:18:30] I wouldn't be surprised if they go offline soon. [00:18:33] Or at least one of them, probably Ford, because they suck so much. [00:18:37] They never know what they're doing. [00:18:39] In any case, just hold tight. [00:18:43] By the way, as a disclaimer, don't take this as financial advice, right? [00:18:45] I'm not your financial advisor. [00:18:47] Just sharing with you my best conclusions and analysis based on a very dynamic and very treacherous situation out there. [00:18:54] You know, everybody's declaring force majeure, right? [00:18:57] So what does that tell you? [00:18:58] The wisdom of self-custody. [00:19:01] The wisdom of self-custody. [00:19:03] And, you know, if anything, this is a good time to get more gold and silver in your hands in case there is a banking failure and the banks do a bail-in and they just claim all your assets and deposits or the stock market collapses and then they just do the great taking and they just take all your stocks because they're never in your name, you know? [00:19:21] So this is an argument for gold and silver at any price. [00:19:25] Really? [00:19:26] Counterparty risk is the big risk right now in the world. [00:19:31] And the best defense against counterparty risk is to have assets in your hand that have intrinsic value. [00:19:36] That's gold and silver. [00:19:39] Now, there may be a buying opportunity as the price gets lower here in the future, in a few weeks or a month. [00:19:47] That's just my guess, but I can't guarantee it. [00:19:50] I don't know. [00:19:51] And also, something else could dramatically change just instantly overnight. [00:19:54] Like somebody starts lobbing nukes or something. [00:19:57] Oh my God, what's going to happen to prices then? [00:20:00] Gold will skyrocket probably. [00:20:03] But I don't want to see nukes. [00:20:04] None of us do. [00:20:05] And we're talking end-of-the-world scenarios there. [00:20:09] However, when you're ready to get more gold and silver, check out our affiliate sponsor, metalswithmike.com. [00:20:15] And that takes you to Battalion Metals, co-founded by Tucker Carlson, one of America's greatest heroic journalists and investigators. [00:20:24] Great guy. [00:20:25] Again, it's metalswithmike.com when you're ready to buy. [00:20:29] Or if you want to sell, they will also buy back your metals if you need cash for some reason. [00:20:37] They buy and they sell, obviously. [00:20:39] That's the business they're in, buying and selling. [00:20:42] So either way, but I'm not selling. [00:20:45] I'm just looking for more buying opportunities and I'm watching closely to see what happens. [00:20:49] And I'm also looking at battery storage technology because I want to get off the petroleum grid, especially because of this freaking war. [00:20:58] I want an EV now more than ever, but I want it to be a sodium ion EV. [00:21:02] And I want my own solar panels and my own battery storage. [00:21:05] I want to make my own fuel, you know, my own energy. [00:21:09] I don't want to depend on the Middle East because, of course, you know, Israel is totally insane. [00:21:15] Trump is completely insane. [00:21:17] Everybody's insane. [00:21:19] It's like you can't depend on energy. [00:21:22] You can't depend on hydrocarbons. [00:21:24] Let's put it that way. === Prepare for Nuclear Survival (04:19) === [00:21:25] You can depend on sunlight because they can't screw with it that much. [00:21:28] You know, they're not going to blow up the sun. [00:21:30] Although, if they could, they would, but they just don't have the capability to blow up the sun. [00:21:35] You know, like if they could make a lot of money blowing up the sun, you can bet they would do it. [00:21:40] It's like, why is it dark every day? [00:21:42] Because they earned a few billion dollars blowing up the sun. [00:21:45] Oh, so we're all going to die, mommy? [00:21:48] You know, yeah, but you know, there's some rich people. [00:21:51] They got rich. [00:21:52] Like, they would do that. [00:21:54] If they could blow up the sun, they would do it, but they can't. [00:21:57] So sunlight is our last true source of abundance, you know, that they can't mess with. [00:22:04] Not much. [00:22:04] I mean, they're going to try to dim the sun a little bit, but that takes fuel. [00:22:08] And right now, there's a shortage of freaking jet fuel. [00:22:12] So they can't run all the flights to pollute the skies and dim the sun. 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