Rick Rule - Silver Shorts About To Have A Religious Experience Today one of the wealthiest people in the financial world warned King World News that the silver shorts are about to have a "truly religious experience." This is an incredibly important interview with Rick Rule, who is business partners with billionaire Eric Sprott, where he describes what is about to bring the gold and silver shorts to their knees and force the rigged paper markets to a "cash basis." Rule: "It's interesting to note that in the first segment of this discussion we talked about the fact that big, big money had been circling the resource industry, and that big, big money was (now) coming to settle. I happen to know right now that very, very, very big money is (now) circling the precious metals themselves -- the physical sector.