State of the Snakes 2023

By Green Snake

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It's another great year of silverbacksnakes.io 🐍

It's been an interesting year in economics. We've experienced high inflation, and the Federal Reserve Bank is attempting to combat it by slowly raising the rates, but they paused for now. If inflation is not combated, that will be good for the metals. Gold has hit $2000+, a new record.(Apnews: Fed interest rates)We witnessed the Silicon Valley Bank implosion due to the rising interest rates.(Investopedia: SVB collapse explained)Housing prices seem to continue to go up. At this rate, we'll be all living out of vans or permanently renting.(Fed housing prices)


The US government now has to pay at least 1 trillion per year in interest payments. And here I thought student loans were bad.(Bloomberg: US Debt Interest Payment)(Fed: US Debt Interest Payments)


Foreign nations recognize these problems and are taking steps to slowly move away.(cnbc: dedollarization)(BusinessInsider: Russia trades oil for non-dollar)

We've seen a rise in AI usage with ChatGPT, image generators, and AI girlfriends, such as Aitana. These AI girlfriends are able to generate significant amount of revenue (€10K per month) thanks to lonely men. I believe we will see even more of these things. We are approaching the dystopian Blade Runner 2049 territory.(euronews: AI spanish model)

I believe the next year is going to get even more weird...

Website News

This website is a fun hobby of mine, and I try to maintain it here and there when the price parsers break or when my code is too goofy. Sometimes, I come back to my code and go "there must have been a gas leak nearby." Maybe, I was exhausted. At this point in time, everything is pretty good.

Mostly, everyone goes to the silver page (silver page), even me. The r/wallStreetSilver subreddit have been continually buying physical silver in an effort to drain the physical supply from the market and also the COMEX silver vault. This current year, it looks like there is some resistance in COMEX.


Kitco was hacked recently and was fixed with a new website. I had to fix my price parsers, which took a few minutes. Apmex recently blocked my price parsers. I tried for an hour, but it didn't work (headers from browser, different user-agent header). I'll probably have to find alternative methods. I have more ideas regarding parsing using headless browsers.

I added more prices to the diff charts for the precious metals. That code was a bit messy. I fixed the colors for the metals charts so the types are different colors and matching across charts.

There are a bunch of projects that I want to make. One, I wanted to make was even more metals prices.

I'm looking forward to another year of metals numbers 🐍