Since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 there has been cheating going on and the American public and anyone else that has been using the dollar is paying the price (no pun intended). Gold and silver are real money not the debt based paper currency (the dollar) we have all become accustomed to using. They cannot be printed at will. As the supply of anything goes up its value goes down. Currency is no different and the government keeps printing dollars. If you wonder why crypto currency's are soaring it is because these markets like gold and sliver have also become the watchdogs of the real value of all fiat currency's. They are increasing while the dollar is falling in value. Good money drives bad money out of circulation. Unlike the metals which can be traded on the Comex as paper and be totally manipulated down in price to make the dollar appear like it still has value the crypto currency's are a true free market and compete with the dollar on a level play field. Check out the governments own website usdebtclock.org in the link below. In the bottom right hand section you will see the dollar to gold and dollar to silver ratio based on 1913 figures. Below it you will see what gold and silver should cost based on inflation since 1913. It's not $17.00 an ounce silver. The government hides the devaluing and theft of your currency by suppressing the value in dollars of real money gold and silver.