Commodity Culture, Released on 8/20/25 (Recorded on 8/18/25)

Michael Oliver thinks silver’s run is just getting started and now that it’s taken out 14-year highs, he’s expecting a lighting-fast run to over $60, before it eventually reaches new real all-time highs. His prognosis for Bitcoin is much more dire and he believes that when the stock market bubble bursts, Bitcoin may enter an epic crash that will shake out all but the most die-hard enthusiasts.

00:00 Introduction
00:57 Silver’s Recent Price Action
04:31 A Return to All-Time Highs?
11:36 Gold and Silver Miners
15:55 Does War Drive the Gold Price?
20:48 Stock Market and Bitcoin
32:56 Uranium and Energy Markets

J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton’s International Commodity Division, headquartered in New York City’s Battery Park. He studied under David Johnston, head of Hutton’s Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX. In the 1980s Mike began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis. He learned early on that orthodox price chart technical analysis left many unanswered questions and too often deceived those who trusted in price chart breakouts, support/resistance, and so forth. In 1987 Mike technically anticipated and caught the Crash. It was then that he decided to develop his structural momentum tools into a full analytic methodology. In 1992 the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Bank’s Trust Department asked Mike to provide soft dollar research to Wachovia. Within a year, Mike shifted from brokerage to full-time technical research. His website is Olivermsa.com. He is also the author of The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism.

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