We have written in these pages before about the financial authorities giving gold a helping hand, sometimes with their short sited policy actions.

The LIBOR scandal rolls on in the UK, eagerly observed by the rest of the world.

There has been a range of intelligent analytical opinions recently espoused, seeking to explain the action in the gold price this last six months.

Silver is a much smaller market than the gold market and quality research about the poor man’s gold can be less easy to find.

In another look at the silver market, Will Bancroft takes a look at Eric Sprott’s call to silver miners in November 2011.