The whole Fort Knox thing is a bit weird to me. The government has the keys to the place. All they have to do is send someone in and look at what's there, and from what I've read it only gets looked at once every 10 or 20 years. Doesn't this seem weird for a place the stores billions of dollars' worth of gold bars? Don't you think a place like that would get inspected several times every single day??!

I agree.  Trump talking about some "Golden Age" nonsense, possibly where they hit the "Great Reset" button and go all digital, replacing the failed dollar.  It isn't about money anymore, but about control.  Once they go digital currency, not backed by anything ... that's where you get into the Beast System where you have to have some "mark" (biometric?) to buy or sell, and where they'll also eliminate most jobs for the Goyim, so that we'll need to rely on a UBI, but where if you're a naughty little boy who makes some comment about how only 5,999,999 Jews died in the h0Ɩ0cαųst, NO UBI FOR YOU that week, and you starve.  These biometrics will also include info about whether you've taken the latest jab(s), etc. ... so that if you don't you'll get locked down.  While the US is too big to implement this, China has piloted a system where with 5G everywhere they have ubiquitous facial recognition of everyone out in public and if you're one of these bad people (with low social credit) you're actually prevented from not only getting on public transportation, but even from passing from one gated section of a city to another, where you get imprisoned.  Not only will they monitor social media, but cell phones and all electronics are listening all the time.  I've actually noticed things where even when I had my phone "discharged", I would make some offhand comment, and then when I got online later (on a computer, not even the phone), I would start seeing ads for the things I had mentioned in passing.  I recall one time I had made some comment about learning Spanish, to a family member, where my phone was dead, on my desk in the bedroom and I wasn't anywhere near a computer.  I got online later and started seeing Google ads for Learning Spanish.  Other people are reporting similar experiences.  All your electronics, TVs, stoves, dishwashers, are not "smart", by which we mean they can be turned off remotely.  Oh, you're a bad boy, we'll prevent your A/C or furnace from coming on, etc.  They're putting up the control grid, and 5G (and emerging 6G) are all part of that.

I do not believe that you can actually buy shares of silver. If you want to buy physical silver via "paper," you would buy silver futures, then use that to buy the actual physical silver.

Yeah, it's all rigged imo. All investors can do is ride their wave and hope for the best - imo.