September 2025 - Week 1 Edition
August Was a Huge Month for Precious Metals And September is Starting Out Even Stronger
Although gold didn’t match the faster rise in silver and platinum, gold pierced the $3,500 level over the weekend. That’s 100 times its fixed price back in 1970.
August 2025 - Week 4 Edition
Eliminating the Penny from Circulating Coinage Article Wins Top Award
Each year, the Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG), founded in 1968, hosts its annual awards competition, held in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money. It’s a tradition that dates back several decades and is highly regarded by the industry for its recognition of the top writers, authors, publishers, content creators and podcasters.
August 2025 - Week 2 Edition
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) Continues to Rise Slowly Despite the Fed’s Rate-Cut-Phobia Over Tariff Fears
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell keeps expecting President Donald Trump’s tariffs to generate more inflation but Trump’s higher tariffs in his first term did not cause a rise in inflation and neither are the current tariffs.
August 2025 - Week 1 Edition
July 2025 and Year-to-Date Market Review
The months of August and September are typically a downtime for the U.S. stock market indexes – the worst two months of the calendar year, by a long shot.
July 2025 - Week 5 Edition
The Dollar is Down 10% So Far in 2025… As I Predicted in January
In my first Metals Report of this year (January, Week 1), I wrote: "Bank of America estimates that the dollar is more than 20% overvalued. If the dollar sinks by even 10% in 2025, gold could easily score another 14% gain to $3,000, or in a best-case scenario, achieve a 25% gain to $3,300."
July 2025 - Week 4 Edition
Silver Price Predictions Reach the Stratosphere, at $200+
Silver is up over 35 percent, so far in 2025. Two weeks ago, a COMEX (commodity exchange) executive predicted silver could rise at least fourfold in the next few years. While we are skeptical of predictions of any huge price jumps – we prefer a solid, slowly rising bull market – his views are worth a listen.
July 2025 - Week 3 Edition
Fed Curiously Ignores Pressing Need to Cut Interest Rates
On Tuesday, July 15, the Consumer Price Index for June was released, reflecting yet another mild rise, up 0.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis. Over the past 12 months, the CPI is up 2.7%. Shelter costs rose 0.2%, energy rose 0.9% and food increased 0.3%. The “core” index rose 0.2% in June, following a 0.1% increase in May, yielding a super-low 1.8% two-month annual rate.
July 2025 - Week 2 Edition
Several States Are Creating a Revived Gold Standard
Texas joined the new gold and silver currency bandwagon with several other states after Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill on June 29 creating what may be the most comprehensive precious metals financial transaction platform in the nation.
July 2025 - Week 1 Edition
Mid-Year Review of Metals and Other Markets
After a stellar first half, the metals continued their bullish run on the first trading day of the second half of 2025. Gold is up $44 per ounce in the futures market (+1.3%) and silver is up $0.60 (+1.6%).
June 2025 - Week 4 Edition
Gold Tends to Soar, Long-Term, When New Major Wars Break Out
The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) is now down 11% this year, reaching a three-year low, which Bank of America and I both predicted in 2024 would likely occur.
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