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.
June 2025 - Week 3 Edition
Central Banks Continue to Buy Gold, Creating a New Gold Standard
Gold is up almost 30% this year. It is also up over 55% since the start of 2024 and it has doubled since October of 2022. This fact is not lost on central bankers or private investors.
June 2025 - Week 2 Edition
What Pushed Silver Up Nearly $4, a Rate of Nearly 12%, in Early June?
June is “Busting Out All Over” for most of the precious metals (except for gold). In the first 10 days of June, we’ve seen double digit gains in silver, platinum and palladium, even while gold is up less than 2%.
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