China and Silver: Big Long, Big Short? Or Big Whoop? -- Jeff Nielson

``It makes no sense at all for China to have gone to the trouble of acquiring (and concealing) a secret stockpile of silver, only to become a literal "partner in crime" in an endeavour which must (eventually) consume that stockpile. Even if China's stockpile was the last to go; its own, rapidly expanding domestic market requires all of the consumer goods which, in turn, require silver. It's like someone operating an elephant wildlife sanctuary deciding to open an ivory store. ''