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THE DEEPER DIVE: My Report Card for my 2025 Predictions and My Predictions for 2026

By David Haggith, The Daily Doom

Inflation did continue up through the year, albeit very gradually in the flawed government statistics. It was much worse for American businesses who mostly absorbed their own direct tariff hits along with the higher prices they had to pay to...

2026: The Year to Be Optimistic

By John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline

We’ve never had a technology this powerful, this cheap, and this available. Computers and the internet made it possible to build a $10 million business with only a handful of employees. It’s only a matter of time until AI enables the first one-person, $1 billion company.

Washington State Targets Savers with New Sales Tax on Gold and Silver, Effective January 1st, 2026

By Mike Gleason, Money Metals

Despite Washington’s step backwards, 2025 was the most impactful year for sound money policy in recent history. The Sound Money Defense League was instrumental in the passage of pro-precious metals legislation in states such as Idaho, Kentucky, Connecticut, Wyoming, Alabama, and more.

Why Did Gold and Silver Tank on Monday?

By Mike Maharrey, Money Metals

There will almost certainly be additional corrections as we move into 2026. There will likely be even bigger selloffs. It’s important to always keep your eyes on the fundamentals. Don’t let corrections spook you. They actually present good buying opportunities.

2025 Followed Gold’s Lead; Silver Followed (And How)

By Gary Tanashian, NFTRH

Positive January, market liquidity problems well within H1, 2026. Then renewed inflation trades, including the precious metals and critical commodities that bulled so well in 2025. Socially and politically, I don’t think it can get much worse...

How About a New Year's Resolution You Can Keep?

By Mike Gleason, Money Metals

This strategy has worked well for me over the years. By refusing to make resolutions, I have avoided the self-flagellation that occurs when I inevitably break those promises to myself.

Ditching the Dollar Is the New Popular Trump Trade

By David Haggith, The Daily Doom

Out with the old, in with the new. Trade in your old bucks right on cue.

Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

By Dr. Ron Paul, Ron Paul Institute

Defenders of the drug war say it is necessary because the drug trade is controlled by violent criminals — even though this is the inevitable result of outlawing a product people wish to consume.

Uruguay Latest Country Hoping to Ditch the Dollar

By Mike Maharrey, Money Metals

The fact that the government is even trying to limit dollar dependence reflects a growing de-dollarization trend that threatens the primacy of the greenback.

The Statism of Donald Trump

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

The free market should never be confused with “crony capitalism,” a system in which the government owns or subsidizes corrupt corporations for their mutual profit at the public's expense.

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