China’s Secret Silver Pipeline. Feat. Alasdair Macleod - April, 11/25-LFTV Ep 218

11 Apr 2025
In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire is joined by Alasdair Macleod to reveal how silver is quietly moved through private channels - largely controlled by China - keeping real supply and demand hidden from the open market.

As silver approaches a critical price point, two old friends explain how major market players may soon lose their grip, opening the door for a sharp rise in silver and a fresh wave of interest in precious metals, unwinding decades of price control.

Check out Alasdair: https://alasdairmacleod.substack.com/
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:20 Andrew introduces Alasdair Macleod
03:55 Silver breaks out as warehouse stocks reach critical lows
10:55 EFP values distorted; China continues strategic silver stockpiling
18:50 Major Asian buyers quietly acquiring precious metals by the billion
27:25 Echoes of the 1970s: Historic parallels in gold accumulation
32:25 BRICS currency risks and the rise of an East Asian supergroup
37:05 What the whales and central banks are really doing behind the scenes
43:30 How central bank leasing and double-counting threaten a crisis
47:15 The Fed’s covert borrowing of gold from the BIS
51:40 Alasdair’s journey: Decades of decoding precious metals market behaviour