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Thursday Edition: December 11, 2025

The Hegseth Killings Must Stop

Congress has the authority to stop Secretary Hegseth from killing people on the high seas. It should do so without delay.

When “Laws” Break and Markets Change

Politicians are not going to stop running deficits or devaluing the dollar; they are devaluing it “every single day as a matter of policy.”

Consumer Credit Growth Remains Tepid Signaling Consumer Stress

Consumer borrowing remained tepid in October, possibly indicating that Americans are feeling increasing financial stress.

FED Moves Bearish USD, Bullish Metals

Ira Epstein covers the recent Federal Reserve decision to implement a dovish cut by initiating a $40 billion monthly purchase of short-term treasuries.

Wednesday Edition: December 10, 2025

Insidious Inflation Finds Ways to Hide and Ways to Secretly Slip in and Steal Christmas

While consumers are not yet reporting seeing much inflation, producers are passing their costs on to retailers and other producers. Consumers are turning away from higher prices...

Why Is The BIS Worried About Gold?

Gold and silver were higher in early U.S. trading, but the price action has the cautious feel of a market holding its breath.

Bank of England Increasingly Looks Like Headquarters of Gold-Market Rigging

For some years, GATA has reported suspicions that BIS gold swaps represent double-counted gold where at least two parties considered that they had good title to the same metal.

A 700 Horsepower Gold Stocks Car

In a nutshell: gold can go higher, but it’s moved up tremendously in a relatively short (and joyous!) time. If it goes higher, the investor is very happy. If it dips significantly, more can be bought.

Now That's a Donation! Gold Coins Dropped in Chicago Area Salvation Army Kettle

According to the Salvation Army, eight gold coins showed up in two separate donations at the Red Kettle campaign at Daley Plaza’s Christkindlmarket.

Silver Hits New All Time High!

Ira Epstein highlights the recent performance of gold, noting its dramatic rise despite being down for the week, and examines the gold-silver ratio, which shows silver gaining strength.

Tuesday Edition: December 9, 2025

COT Gold, Silver & USDX Report - December 9, 2025

PLEASE NOTE: Positions as of NOVEMBER 4, 2025

Trump’s War on Venezuela

In sum, what Murray is saying is that a just war must be defensive; a nation must be trying to stop an invasion. And even in a defensive war, you must follow certain restraints.

Iranians Turning to Gold as Inflation Runs Rampant

Iranians are turning to gold as sanctions and government policy destroy their currency.

Palladium Ready for Next Big Upleg and a Way to Capitalize on It...

The palladium charts provide further evidence that the metals are now advancing across a broad front – and why shouldn’t they, given that the dollar and interest rates are set to drop...

BRICS Move Forward 40% Gold-Backed 'Unit' Proposal

It’s a proposal that would essentially allow BRICS nations to conduct trade while having a gold and BRICS currency-backed payment basket to settle imbalances.

Gold SWOT: Silver Reached a Record High Last Week

The best performing precious metal for the past week was silver, up about 3.6%. The metal has gained nearly 22% in the past month, previously hitting $50 an ounce in 1980 and 2011. 

Silver Continue to Gain on Gold, Overall

Ira Epstein discusses the current state of the metals market, noting that metals were lower during the day but showing slight recovery in the evening.

Monday Edition: December 8, 2025

Black Mammoth Metals Finds Large Chargeability Anomaly Underlying the Historic Workings and Stakes Claims at Amador Silver Property, NV

The IP Survey has delineated a large high-chargeability anomaly, with high-resistivity extending at least 1.22 km along the range-front and under the historic Amador mine workings...

Strong Black Friday Sales Sucked Into the Debt Black Hole

According to data parsed by Mastercard, approximately 87.3 million Americans shopped online, and 81.7 million visited physical stores.

Update: Tracking The Silver Bull Market, Key Channels and Fractals

Silver has recently emerged from a bottoming pattern that began around 2014, when it broke down below the channel. That bottoming pattern is very similar to the one in the early 2000s...

USD, Oil, & Gold: Key Wave Counts

Within wave (iv) we completed wave -a- at the 3886.50 low and it now looks like wave -b- is still underway, although it could now be complete at the 4265.70 high.

Asian Funds Dominate as ETFs Add Gold for Sixth Straight Month

Gold ETFs globally reported net inflows of gold for the sixth straight month, driven by a strong surge in Asian investment.

Technical Scoop: Job Surprise, Yield Rise, Silver High

The gold rally of 2025 was put on pause this past week. Overall, gold fell a small 0.5% while silver continued its big run, up 3.5% to new all-time highs.

Markets Now Starting to Setup for FOMC Meeting

Ira Epstein discusses the current state of the metals market, focusing on gold and silver, while also touching on the broader economic context influenced by the Federal Reserve's anticipated interest rate cut.

Sunday Edition: December 7, 2025

$42 Gold

Doug Hornig: Other central banks would follow the U.S. lead and stockpile more gold. (They’ve been buying a lot in recent years, so perhaps they already know something we don’t.)

Gold Sinks Slightly as Silver Skirts Sixty

Indeed “the better buy” has been Sweet Sister Silver, coming Friday within a hair’s breadth of touching the 60.00 milestone

BIS gold swaps fall from 54 tonnes in Oct. to 39 in Nov.

Nevertheless, the BIS has a well-placed confidence that no mainstream financial news organization will ever ask it to explain the purposes of the swaps and to identify the parties to them, lest gold cease being the immensely powerful secret knowledge of the financial universe. 

The Price of Trust Is Rising

In a world where shocks and surprises are increasingly the norm, gold’s capacity to provide diversification and downside protection remains as relevant as ever. That is not a slogan. It is just an old lesson..

Red Hot Juniors Lead A Golden Parade

Technical stock chart updates: $APGOF, $TQQQ, $NUGT, $FCX, $HL, $GDX and more

Poverty Level Discourse

I don’t think it’s just me. We are all getting overwhelmed with information and seemingly important news. What will the Fed do? Is Trump going to invade Venezuela? What about Israel? Ukraine? Is the economy...

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