RE:Silver Price DiscussionI read a theory recently that made a lot of sense. The Fed is continuing to be surprisingly hawkish with interest rate hikes despite, for the last few months, the markets expecting a pivot back to QE. The theory is that the Fed, and by the extension the US gov, is raising rates primarily to lower the prices of commodities in order to hurt the BRICS nations. These nations are now trading in a currency backed by a basket of commodities, instead of trading in the US dollar, which has/had been the global reserve currency for decades. The Fed realizes it must crush commodities in order to apply pressure to the BRICS nations and buy the dollar more time as the US gov prepares and implements a digital currency. So, if this theory is to be believed, it means that 1) the Fed realizes it is powerless against inflation, 2) the rate hikes are not to tame inflation but instead they are actually an act of economic war against the BRICS nations, and 3) the Fed is willing to destroy the US markets, domestic employment, and multiple domestic industries in order to buy time for a US gov that is still not ready to lose dollar hegemony as their digital currency plans are needing more time. So we could be seeing far more rate hikes than we all anticipate, for much longer, and commmodities could get absolutely crushed in 2023. Not sure if I completely but theory but it does warrant discussion.