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Monday Edition: December 8, 2025

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...

Friday Edition: December 5, 2025

COT Gold, Silver & USDX Report - December 5, 2025

PLEASE NOTE: Positions as of OCTOBER 28, 2025

Gold’s Futures Plot Twist

Now with those delayed CoT reports slowly trickling out, gold’s narrative is being rewritten. This stunning revelation really ups the odds for another gold high consolidation.

Is Silver Set Up to Crash Like 1980 and 2011?

When gold bounced off $2,100 twice in a matter of weeks, a lot of experts declared it a double top and false breakout. As Hemke pointed out, these experts were proven wrong.

Economic Decline Continues Relentlessly

As tariffs have flashed on and off and higher and lower, businesses have been saying constantly that this is creating uncertainty that makes intelligent planning next to impossible.

Silver at $59?: Market Mechanics, Physical Strain, and the Rumours Nobody Can Ignore

Gold and silver are a little softer on normal profit taking after a strong run. That is not unusual, particularly in silver, where rallies tend to be sharp...

Reality Doesn't Matter. Just Enjoy the Poppies

For the 3rd month this year, private payrolls didn’t just fall short of delivering the job gains needed to keep the economy steady with population growth, but reduced the number of jobs.

India to Allow Silver as Loan Collateral (Just Like Money Metals!)

A surge in Indian demand helped drive the gold rally in October that pushed the price to record levels above $50 an ounce.

Gold and Copper Remain Strongest Metals

Ira Epstein covers upcoming economic data releases, including personal income and spending reports, the PCE price index, and the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment indices.

Thursday Edition: December 4, 2025

Silver Futures Come Within 35 Cents of $60 Level

Meanwhile, the gold futures are up $33 to $4,254, only $144 away from the $4,398 high set earlier this year.

Call For Fellows: Participate In Our Yearly Sound Money Fellowship

The two groups have set aside more than 100 ounces of physical gold (currently valued at ~$420,000) to reward deserving students and researchers advancing original sound money analyses.

Math, Spin, and a Milestone Episode

Thirty-odd billion dollars in monthly tariffs won't erase multi-hundred-billion-dollar deficits. A $7 trillion annual budget and more than $1 trillion in interest payments won't go away.

Aztec Expands Drilling Program at the Tombstone Project, Arizona

Aztec believes that the historic silver mines at Tombstone could be related to a much larger mesothermal system with CRD mineralization below the old mines.

Wednesday Edition: December 3, 2025

Silver, Silver/Gold Ratio, and Party Time

We have long expected a year-end rally...I believe the party whipping up now may be an impulse to the real play, an “inflation trade”, which could show up and persist in 2026.

Peace President Seeks Regime Change in Venezuela and Surrender in Ukraine

The EU and the UK are talking about dumping all their holding of US debt. That’s a vulnerability the US has that would cripple it deeply if it were to happen...

Progress in the Fight for Educational Freedom

Spreading education programs among many departments may reduce spending. For example, it could spur Congress to stop wasting millions of dollars a year on PR for the Education Department.

The Real Cost of Not Holding Gold as 2025 Ends

When you ask people what they’d rather give someone right now, cash or gold, 55% say gold is the better gift. Which sounds like a conversation you’d expect to overhear in 1910, not 2025.

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