COI Hits The BRICS
My "Cost Of Information" (COI) theory that the information industry has been driven for the past seventy years by a falling cost of information which is probably drawing to a close...
The IT industry consumes about 20% of silver production which is relatively inelastic, there is lead time to find new mines, high capital costs for equipment, lead time to manufacture it, etc.
On Oct 18th, 2024, Russia's State Fund announced it was adding silver to its purchase portfolio. This change may be part of a future BRICS currency platform and spur other countries to buy silver.
Silver jumped 6.5% on the announcement, the largest jump I've seen since I started following the market in 2003. As I mentioned before, I believe the BRICS platform will look a lot like my theoretical design of gold-backed, State digital tokens.
Russia may be pursuing a dual strategy - use silver for BRICS interoperation but also induce inflation in IT markets which are at a tipping point, to crash economies like the United States.