<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Richard&apos;s Silver Bible</title><description>Silver markets, history, and practical stacking. Research-backed writing for investors, stackers, and the curious.</description><link>https://thesilverbible.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Where Silver Comes From: Neutron Stars to Your Stack</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/where-silver-comes-from/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/where-silver-comes-from/</guid><description>The complete journey of silver — from cosmic nucleosynthesis to refined metal. How an element forged in dying stars ends up in your hand.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Six Years of Deficit: The Supply Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-supply-deficit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-supply-deficit/</guid><description>The silver market has run a structural supply deficit since 2021. More than 820 million ounces of shortfall, draining inventories, and no fix in sight. Here&apos;s what the data actually says.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Stacker&apos;s Tax Guide</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-tax-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-tax-guide/</guid><description>Capital gains rates, cost basis tracking, reporting thresholds, state sales tax, IRA rules, and inheritance — a plain-English guide to the tax side of silver.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Premiums Over Spot, Explained</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-premiums-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-premiums-explained/</guid><description>What premiums are, what drives them, why they spike, and how to navigate them — a guide to the gap between the spot price and what you actually pay.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Silver Screen Was Not a Metaphor</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-screen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-screen/</guid><description>Photography and cinema are silver technologies. When digital arrived, it quietly destroyed one of history&apos;s largest industrial silver markets — and almost no one noticed.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Money Actually Works</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/how-money-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/how-money-works/</guid><description>Money isn&apos;t what most people think it is. How it&apos;s created, who benefits first, what the Fed actually does, and why a 150-year-old school of economics saw most of this coming.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Best Silver Coins for Stackers: A Head-to-Head Comparison</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/best-silver-coins/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/best-silver-coins/</guid><description>American Eagles, Canadian Maples, British Britannias, Austrian Philharmonics, and more — compared on purity, premiums, liquidity, security features, and IRA eligibility.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Silver and the Occult: Historical Belief vs. Modern Myth</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-and-the-occult/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-and-the-occult/</guid><description>Silver bullets, alchemical symbols, and lunar mythology — how silver became the most symbolically charged metal in Western occult tradition.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Antimicrobial Power: Ancient Knowledge, Modern Science</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-antimicrobial/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-antimicrobial/</guid><description>Silver kills bacteria, fungi, and viruses on contact. The science behind silver&apos;s antimicrobial power and its growing medical applications.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What the Record Run to $121 Actually Tells Us</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/silver-january-2026-spike/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/silver-january-2026-spike/</guid><description>Silver hit an all-time high, then crashed 33% in a single day. The headlines focused on the crash. The structural picture tells a different story.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Shanghai Silver Market: China&apos;s Role in Global Price Discovery</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/shanghai-silver-market/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/shanghai-silver-market/</guid><description>China is the world&apos;s largest silver consumer with its own parallel market. How the Shanghai Gold Exchange works and why Western investors should care.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Chip Economy: A Hidden Demand Story</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-semiconductors-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-semiconductors-ai/</guid><description>Every chip in every phone, car, and data center uses silver. How the AI boom and advanced packaging are creating structural demand.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Energy Transition</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-energy-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-energy-transition/</guid><description>Solar panels, EVs, and grid infrastructure all require silver. How the energy transition is reshaping silver demand — and where the limits are.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Silver Mining Stocks: How They Work and What You&apos;re Actually Buying</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-mining-stocks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-mining-stocks/</guid><description>Mining stocks offer leveraged exposure to silver prices — but they&apos;re operating businesses with their own risks. Here&apos;s how to think about them before you buy.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Hunt Brothers&apos; Silver Corner of 1980: What Really Happened</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/hunt-brothers-1980/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/hunt-brothers-1980/</guid><description>In 1979–1980, two Texas oil heirs came closer to cornering a global commodity than anyone in modern history. The story, stripped of myth.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ETFs vs. Physical: What You&apos;re Actually Buying</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-etfs-vs-physical/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-etfs-vs-physical/</guid><description>ETFs are convenient. Physical silver is tangible. A clear-eyed comparison of counterparty risk, storage, taxes, and when each makes sense.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Store Your Stack</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/how-to-store-silver/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/how-to-store-silver/</guid><description>A practical guide to silver storage: at home, at a bank, at a vault. Covers safes, insurance, tarnish, and the one rule everyone breaks.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Eagles vs. Maples vs. Rounds: What Should You Buy?</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/silver-eagles-vs-maples/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/silver-eagles-vs-maples/</guid><description>Government coins, private rounds, different finenesses, wildly different premiums — how to choose for your first (or next) silver purchase.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Gold/Silver Ratio: What It Is and Why Stackers Watch It</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/gold-silver-ratio/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/shorts/gold-silver-ratio/</guid><description>The gold/silver ratio has swung from 15:1 to 125:1 in modern times. What it measures, what history suggests, and its limits as a trading tool.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How the Silver Market Actually Works</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/how-silver-market-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/how-silver-market-works/</guid><description>Futures markets, the LBMA fix, and a physical market where you never pay spot. A plain-English guide to how silver is actually priced and traded.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Silver as Money: A 4,000-Year Timeline</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-as-money-timeline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/silver-as-money-timeline/</guid><description>From ancient Mesopotamia to the Crime of 1873 to Nixon closing the gold window — 4,000 years of silver as money, condensed into one timeline.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Is Silver? Money, Metal, and Commodity</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/what-is-silver/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/what-is-silver/</guid><description>Silver is the world&apos;s most industrially useful metal and one of its oldest monetary instruments. Understanding both roles is the starting point.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Case for Silver</title><link>https://thesilverbible.com/articles/the-case-for-silver/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thesilverbible.com/articles/the-case-for-silver/</guid><description>Constrained supply, accelerating demand, and 4,000 years of monetary history. An honest assessment of the silver bull case — and the risks.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>