A Better Silver Squeeze

The Daily Reckoning framing treats “cornering a market” as a clever hack, with the comforting qualifier “legally and sustainably.” But that’s a thin reed. When financial commentary starts romanticizing squeezes, it downplays how quickly ordinary investors become exit liquidity for insiders with better information and faster execution.

Conservatives don’t object to risk, or to people making money. We object to games that corrode public trust in markets and invite political crackdowns that punish everyone. A “squeeze” built on hype, leverage, or coordinated pressure may skirt statutes while still violating the spirit of fairness and transparency that makes capitalism defensible.

The real test is whether the strategy strengthens price discovery, respects the rule of law, and avoids systemic spillovers. Markets should reward productive allocation, not clever ways to manufacture scarcity and then demand sympathy when it snaps back.