January 2025 - Week 5 Edition
Will the Dollar Fall 10% to 20% in 2025? Will Gold Hit $3,000? How Soon?
The main component supporting the U.S. dollar is its relatively high interest rate among developed economies, with the 10-year treasury bond offering between 4.5% and 4.8% lately.
January 2025 - Week 2 Edition
The Tale of Peter the Eagle and the U.S. Mint
As inflation predictions came out Tuesday, gold once again began to rise. As of midday Wednesday, Gold was up to $2,695 an ounce and silver was $30.69 an ounce
January 2025 - Week 1 Edition
The Dollar Soared in 2024 – Gold Could Soar More in 2025 if the Dollar Falls
As we move into 2025, it’s interesting to note that four of the biggest Wall Street investment banks all predict $3,000 gold this year.
December 2024 - Week 3 Edition
Gold Still Beats Stocks over the Long Run
We have two more weeks until we reach the 25-year mark since the dawn of Y2K. Gold is still beating stocks by a spectacular margin in those 25 years since the new century and millennium began. Gold is up 815%, which more than doubles the performance of the S&P 500 (at 313%) and the Dow Jones Industrials, at +280%. Gold also outshines the performance of silver, at +471%.
December 2024 - Week 2 Edition
Balancing the Budget is Challenging Given Current Entitlement Guarantees That Will Be Good For Gold
As we enter 2025, there will be a +2.5% “Cost of Living Allowance” (COLA) in Social Security benefits, another sign that entitlement benefits will hamstring attempts to cut federal spending, despite the well-intended attempts by the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
December 2024 - Week 1 Edition
Our Monthly Review of the Metals and the Markets - November was a “Trump Slump” for Metals But They Still Beat Stocks
2024 could turn out to be the best year for gold since the 1970s in terms of some other currencies, but gold must gain 5% or more during December to beat three other years in the 21st Century to become gold’s best year since 1979.
November 2024 - Week 4 Edition
Iowa Senator Agrees with Me on Pennies
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst included the idea – which I wrote about in 2013 – as one of her Top 10 ideas in a letter to Musk and Ramaswamy last week, stating on X, “Bad Pennies: Currently, the federal government is paying 3 cents to produce a penny and 11 cents to make a nickel. That makes no sense! Only Washington could lose money making money. Changing the composition of coins would save $50 million a year.”
November 2024 - Week 3 Edition
A “Reversion to the Norm” in Gold and Stocks – Two Weeks After the Election
Imagine that two investors went “all in” on two investments in reaction to the Republican sweep of the White House and Senate on Wednesday, November 6th, when the results of the election were first made clear and markets opened. Investor #1 bought gold and investor #2 bought stocks. After one week, the stock investor was up and the gold investor was licking his wounds but what about the second week?
November 2024 - Week 2 Edition
How Gold Performs During a Republican “Sweep” in Washington
We still see rising gold and silver prices ahead, with predictions of gold hitting $3,000 per ounce by the end of the next year.
November 2024 - Week 1 Edition
We Should See $3,000 Gold in 2025 and Silver Well Over $40!
Due to the chronic difficulty of cutting spending, lowering the federal debt, containing inflation and achieving less global turmoil, despite the apparent clean sweep by Republicans in 2024.
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