Why China, India, and Russia Are Buying So Much Silver (And What It Means for YOUR Money)

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1:15They came to the same conclusion on their own. Now, governments don't move like that for something worthless. People say it's just trade, just business. That's not what's really happening. There's a reason China is paying double. There's a reason India isn't slowing down. There's a reason Russia stopped calling it an investment and started calling it something else entirely. And there's a number, a real number, that I'm willing to put my name on. I'll tell you what it is. That's coming up on the Rich Dad Radio Show. Don't go anywhere. This is the Rich Dad Radio Show. The good news and bad news about money.

1:57Here's Robert Kiyosaki. Welcome to the Rich Dad Radio Show. The good and bad about money. This is Robert Kiyosaki. And today is just you and me. And we're talking about what the rich are teaching their kids about money. Today, welcome back. We're discussing China. It's about America. and why three governments are quietly buying all of them. Why are China, India, and Russia buying so much silver? Most Americans have never heard the phrase physical delivery risk in their lives. Let me answer it straight. That's not speculation. That's called getting their first. on planet Earth. China secures the metal.

2:46At the exact moment, the supply is disappearing. At the exact moment, India imported over 900 million ounces of silver. And when governments start competing for a second, more silver than the entire London bullion market moved in that same stretch of time. Most people believe India is just buying jewelry, wedding gold, three nations, nearly all. That's what they told you. Here's the trick. India's building out solar manufacturing, electronics production, defense capability, all at the same time. And silver runs through every single one of those in pile of metal. Take away the silver, and India's entire industrial plan stalls.

3:31Solar panels don't get built, and most Americans don't even know it's happening. Defense systems don't get manufactured. Here's the problem. Most people think silver is just a shiny version of gold. Wrong. This is important. India is not betting on the price of silver going up. India is securing the raw material. You cannot run a modern economy without silver. That's a different decision, a bigger decision. You cannot run a modern economy without silver. A speculator hopes the price goes up, military technology, medical devices, water purification. And now, that's the difference between gambling on a metal and building a country on top of it.

4:19Think about it this way. If you knew for a fact that a raw material is about to become scarce, and your entire industrial future depends on having enough of it, would you wait? of electricity known to man? Or would you go get it now? So while everyone's talking about chips, India already answered that question. Most Americans haven't even been asked to. And it's not just AI. The whole world is getting hotter, more urban, more electrified, more air conditioning, more power grids, more demand for cooling every single year in every growing city on Earth. That demand doesn't go away. for strategic state purposes.

5:03People say, Robert, that's just technology, not portfolio diversification. That's what they told you. Here's what they don't tell you. Let me say that again because it matters. AI, power grids, cooling, defense, pulls from the same shrinking pool of metal. Nobody is mining new silver fast enough to keep up. Mining takes years. It means they expect price shocks. It means they no longer trust foreign currencies to protect them from the shock hit. Unlike gold, Russia has spent years getting cut off from Western banking systems. Burned through. Gone. That's the difference. Locked out. Most people forget this part.

5:41A country that's been frozen out of the dollar system once. Silver is also money. Real money. But kind that exists at long before any government can print at a dollar. No bank can seize. For most of history, gold and silver traded at around 14 to 1. bar of metal sitting in a vault inside its own borders. That ratio held for centuries. You can't wire transfer silver out of a country by pressing a button. 14 to 1 steady. Today that ratio was broken, blown apart. That's exactly why they wanted it. Because here's the problem. A three-nation, China, India, Russia, made by a government, and governments break promises.

6:26Silver isn't a promise. Silver doesn't care who's president, doesn't care what the Fed decides on a Tuesday afternoon. As confidence in the dollar weakens, people go looking for something real again. Something that can't be printed. When we come back, I'm going to expose the system and the players who have found a way to steal silver while keeping its price low. And while three governments representing billions of people are moving, here is something your financial advisor and Wall Street do not want you to know. The best deals in the world will never show up on your brokerage app. That is not an accident.

7:04The rules of money were not written for you. They were written for the rich, by the rich. That is why the average investor is funneled into stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, and told to sit tight for 40 years and hope. Meanwhile, the best deals in the world are private, While three nations, representing 40 % of humanity, are hoarding silver behind closed doors. Everyday Americans are chasing stocks, chasing crypto, chasing whatever is trending this week. That is not an accident. It keeps the good deals inside a small circle while everyone else fights over what is left in public markets. If you want real returns, stop looking where everyone else is told to look.

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8:26He's got the idea, he's got the plan, he's even got the name picked out, but he never launches. You know why? The setup. Which website builder? Which domain company? Which email tool? He'd open five tabs, burn three hours and have nothing to show for it. So the business state in his head made him exactly zero dollars. Last week, he finally launched. I asked him how. He said, Robert, I didn't build a website. I had a conversation. He went to Hostinger and just told their AI what he wanted, plain English. Minutes later, the first version of his website was done. And here's the part I like. The domain, the hosting, the business email, all of it.

9:05One place, one account. No duct tape, no tech guy. And it costs less than what most people waste on coffee. So I can't afford it, it won't work here. Rich Dad taught me, the poor say I can't. The rich ask, how can I? Here's how. Go to hostinger.com slash richdad20 and use code richdad20 for 20 % off. That's hostinger.com slash richdad20. The people who changed their financial future aren't the ones who almost did something. Go now, it's a great first step. Welcome back. I bought more when it crossed 13. I promise to tell you how silver is being stolen. Not because I could predict the exact numbers, nobody can predict the exact number.

9:51Not to manipulate money. Not to anyone on television. Because I understood the pattern. Silver gets consumed. Gold gets hoarded. That pattern doesn't reverse. Jim Rickards has publicly forecast silver, eventually moving well above$100 an ounce. driven by exactly the forces we just walked through. If you have silver ETFs, you do not have silver. All you have is fake paper. Ricketts has gone as far as telling people to keep physical silver coins at home, not as an investment, as insurance. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's a man who studies currency wars for a living, and here's what he's doing with his own money.

10:35In this technology age, silver has become the structural metal of the modern economy, the same way iron was a structural metal of the industrial age. And this is the part they don't teach you. Gold gets found and hoarded. Silver is building this. I could be wrong about the exact number, so could he. It doesn't go anywhere. I could be wrong, he could be wrong. Anyone selling you certainty is selling you something else. But understand this, when the man who studies currency collapse for a living and three governments representing billions of people are all moving the same direction. That's not noise.

11:18That's a signal. It's not worth the trouble. That's why some estimates say the vast majority of emissions the rich don't wait for CNBC to tell them it's safe. the rich can watch what governments do, not what governments say. China is buying, India is buying, Russia is buying, not because they are rich, because they understand something most people were never taught. That currency is a promise. It just changes owners. Silver is not a promise. Silver is a fact. You can print a dollar, and then it's locked inside a circuit board, in trace amounts too small you cannot ever be worth digging back out.

12:02That's the difference. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. Gold is hoarded. You don't need to buy a truckload of solar. That's the difference. Buy one coin. So every year the supply gets a little smaller and the demand from solar, from defense, from AI, from air conditioning in a hotter, more crowded world gets a little bigger. attention. Smaller supply, bigger demand. You start reading the news to finance degree to know what that does to the price. Now combine that, why Russia is buying. That one coin is not the investment. That one coin is the education. That's not an accident. Most people will hear this episode and do nothing.

12:46Now let's talk about who's grabbing it before it's gone. China is comfortable, quiet, unprepared life. China is already the world's second largest silver producer. That's why most people stay stuck. You'd think that means they have plenty. They don't act like it. China is now buying silver directly from miners in Peru and Mexico because nobody ever asked them the question I'm about to ask you. Three governments, 40 % of humanity, preparing for a future, most Americans refuse to look at. People say it's just demand, just growth, just business. Thank you for caring about your future. That's what they told you.

13:21Thank you for understanding that you are the only one who cares about taking care of you. Nobody runs a business that way. You pay double when you're not trying to make a profit on the metal. You're trying to make sure you have the metal, no matter what it costs. China doesn't trust Western exchanges, doesn't trust Western vaults, doesn't trust Western settlement systems. They want the metal inside China, refined by China, controlled by China. Think about it. Nations don't do that for a shiny metal they like the look of. Nations do that when they're preparing for supply shocks. Nations do that when they're preparing for trade wars.

14:05Nations do that when they no longer believe the U.S. dollar will keep running the world. This is important. Jim Rickards has pointed out that the moment any real segment of the market demands physical delivery instead of paper contracts, the exchanges and custodians suddenly discover they don't have nearly enough actual metal to hand over. Keep listening. If you are an entrepreneur, you need to hear this. If you are a gold bug, you need to hear this. And if you are looking to find cash-flowing deals that outperform Wall Street, you need to take heed. We'll be right back. I've got a neighbor, retired guy, smart guy.

14:45For years, he's been telling me about this business he wants to start. He's got the idea. He's got the plan. He's even got the name picked out, but he never launches. You know why? The setup. Which website builder? Which domain company? Which email tool? He'd open five tabs, burn three hours, and have nothing to show for it. So the business stayed in his head where it made him exactly zero dollars. Last week, he finally launched. I asked him how. He said, Robert, I didn't build a website. I had a conversation. He went to Hostinger and just told their AI what he wanted, plain English. Minutes later, the first version of his website was done.

15:23And here's a part I like. The domain, the hosting, the business email, all of it. One place, one account. No duct tape, no tech guy, and it costs less than what most people waste on coffee. So I can't afford it, won't work here. Rich Dad taught me, the poor say I can't. The rich ask, how can I? Here's how. Go to Hostinger.com slash Rich Dad 20 and use code Rich Dad 20 for 20 % off. That's Hostinger.com slash Rich Dad 20. The people who change their financial future aren't the ones who almost did something. Go now. It's a great first step. Here is something your financial advisor and Wall Street do not want you to know.

16:07The best deals in the world will never show up on your brokerage app. That is not an accident. The rules of money were not written for you. They were written for the rich, by the rich. That is why the average investor is funneled into stocks, bonds, and mutual funds and told to sit tight for 40 years and hope. Meanwhile, the best deals in the world are private, real estate, oil and gas, small businesses. These assets are not subject to the same public market rules, and they consistently outperform Wall Street. You find them through relationships, education, and deal flow built over years. That is not an accident.

16:43It keeps the good deals inside a small circle while everyone else fights over what is left in public markets. If you want real returns, stop looking where everyone else is told to look. I've got a solution for you. Meet Devin Johnson, founder of Capital Club. Devin has access to deals most people don't even know exist. Deals that let you invest in a business before it goes public. Deals that cash flow regularly and consistently. Deals that can prevent you from ever paying taxes. Deals that Wall Street doesn't want you to know about. Now Devin is opening a door so you can have access to her deals.

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18:11That's the 2026law.com. I'll add the link in the show description, paid for by Paradigm Press. Welcome back. We were discussing China and China's devouring of silver. China isn't waiting to discover that the hard way. China is making sure it already has the medal before the scramble starts. Most Americans have never heard the phrase physical delivery risk in their life. China thinks about it every single day. That's not speculation. That's called getting there first. China secures the medal. India secures the future. In the last five years, India imported over 900 million ounces of silver. Let that number sit for a second.

19:01More silver than the entire London bullion market moved in that same stretch of time. Most people believe India is just buying jewelry, wedding gold, wedding silver, tradition. That's what they told you. Here's the truth. India is building out solar manufacturing, electronics production, defense capability, all at the same time, and silver runs through every single one of those industries. Take away the silver, and India's entire industrial plan stalls. Solar panels don't get built, electronics don't get made, defense systems don't get manufactured. That's not a small risk for a nation of over a billion people.

19:47trying to modernize all at once. This is important. India is not betting on the price of silver going up. India is securing the raw material its entire economic future depends on. That's a different decision, a bigger decision. One is speculation. The other is national planning. A speculator hopes the price goes up. A nation makes sure the supply is there regardless of the price. That's the difference between gambling on a metal and building a country on top of it. Think about it this way. If you knew for a fact that a raw material was about to become scarce and your entire industrial future depended on having enough of it, would you wait?

20:36Would you hope the price stays low? Or would you go get it now while you still can? India already answered that question. Most Americans haven't even been asked it yet. China secured the medal. India secured the future. Russia did something different, something no major nation had done out loud before. Russia openly stated it is accumulating silver for strategic state purposes, not investment, not portfolio diversification, national security. Let me say that again because it matters. When a government stops calling something an investment and starts calling it a national security asset, that tells you everything.

21:25It means they expect shortages. It means they expect price shocks. It means they no longer trust foreign currencies to protect them when the shock hits. Russia has spent years getting cut off from Western banking systems, sanctioned, frozen, locked out. A country that's been frozen out of the dollar system once doesn't want to be caught unprepared twice. So it stockpiles something no sanction can freeze, no bank can seize, no wire transfer can block, a physical bar of metal sitting in a vault inside its own borders. You can't wire transfer silver out of a country by pressing a button. You can't freeze a bar sitting in a Russian vault from a desk in Washington.

22:18That's exactly why they want it. Here's the problem. Three nations, China, India, Russia, representing close to 40 % of every human being alive on planet Earth, all draining the same shrinking pile of silver at the same time. For three different reasons that all point the same direction. That's not a coincidence. That's not a trend chasing itself. That's preparation on a scale most Americans have never been asked to think about. And while three governments representing billions of people are moving, What has your government told you to do? We just covered three governments, three reasons. One, shrinking supply.

23:09Now let's talk about you. Because here's the number that should bother you. Less than 1 % of American wealth is allocated to precious metals. Less than 1%. While three nations, representing 40 % of humanity, or hoarding silver behind closed doors, everyday Americans are chasing stocks, chasing crypto, chasing whatever's trending this week. People say precious metals are old-fashioned, outdated, a relic. That's what they told you. Meanwhile, the very governments telling you gold and silver don't matter are the ones quietly buying all they can get. Think about it. Would a government stockpile something worthless?

23:55Would a nation risk its own national security on a relic? This is important. Nobody ever sat you down and taught you what a government does with its money versus what it tells you to do with yours. Two different playbooks, one for them, one for you. The question was never whether silver is a good investment. The question is why China, India, and Russia are preparing for a future most Americans aren't even paying attention to. Most people won't ask that question. Most people are too busy watching their phone. A phone that, by the way, has silver inside it too. Here's a truth nobody wants to say out loud.

24:38Your financial education was never designed to teach you this. Your school never mentions strategic metals. Your bank isn't going to bring it up either. That's not an accident. That's the system working exactly as it was built to work. Quiet, comfortable, and unprepared. Comfortable until the day it isn't. That's how it always works. Slow, then all at once. Are you going to keep watching? Or are you going to start paying attention? Let's go back to that ratio I mentioned earlier, gold to silver. Historically, 14 to 1. For most of my life, that ratio has been broken. Sometimes 50 to 1, sometimes worse.

25:20People say that means silver is cheap. That's what they told you. Here's what it really means. It means silver has been mispriced against its own scarcity for decades. I bought silver back when it was under$3 an ounce, before most people were paying attention, before China, India, or Russia were doing this out loud. I I bought more when it crossed 13, then again later at higher prices still. Not because I could predict the exact number. Nobody can predict the exact number. Not me, not Rickards, not anyone on television. Because I understood the pattern. Silver gets consumed. Gold gets hoarded.

26:04That pattern doesn't reverse. Jim Rickards has publicly forecast silver eventually moving well above$100 an ounce, driven by exactly the forces we just walked through, shrinking supply, central bank buying, and a paper market that can't deliver the physical metal it promises. I've said this myself out loud more than once. I am still calling for silver to hit$200 an ounce. Could I be wrong? Sure. Rickards could be wrong too. But here's why I keep saying it. In this technology age, silver has become the structural metal of the modern economy, the same way iron was a structural metal of the industrial age.

26:50Every age gets built on a metal. Iron built the last one. Silver is building this one. I could be wrong about the exact number. So could he. Do your own research, always. I could be wrong. He could be wrong. Anyone selling you certainty is selling you something else. But understand this, when the man who studies currency collapse for a living, and three governments representing billions of people, are all moving the same direction, that's not noise, that's a signal. Here's the difference between the rich and everyone else. The rich don't wait for permission. The rich don't wait for CNBC to tell them it's safe.

27:33The rich watch what governments do, not what governments say. China is buying. India is buying. Russia is buying. Not because they're rich, because they understand something most people were never taught. That currency is a promise. And silver is not a promise. Silver is a fact. You can print a dollar. You cannot print an ounce of silver. You can bail out a bank, you cannot bail out a shortage. That's the difference. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. Here's what I tell people. You don't need to buy a truckload of silver. Buy one coin. Hold it in your hand. Feel the weight of it. That one coin won't make you rich.

28:23That's not the point. The point is, the moment you own it, you start paying attention. You start reading the news differently. You start asking why China is buying, why India is buying, why Russia is buying. That one coin is not the investment. That one coin is the education. Most people will hear this episode and do nothing. They'll go back to their phone, their job, their comfortable, quiet, unprepared life. That's why most people stay stuck. not because they're not smart, because being smart was never the problem. Being asleep was the problem. Because nobody ever asked them the question I'm about to ask you.