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bucolic_frolic

(53,843 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 10:20 AM 3 hrs ago

Weak dollar: Silver rose 9% on Friday, gold at $4560 an ounce

There are videos saying the Big Banks had to borrow $18 billion to cover their shorts in silver. Don't know if it's true.

The weak dollar is inflating prices of everything that's not cash. Stock markets, says the guru I most depend on, will continue to rise in 2026, partly due to the AI trade.

That reflation trend will, imho, spill into inflation of everything in a period of rising unemployment. I could see inflation running above 6% by October 2026, with stock markets up 12-15%. Rising job losses with inflation. Stagflation. Affordability will be a subject for Election Day.

But as they say the best investors are the dead ones (because they haven't meddled in their investments for years).

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Weak dollar: Silver rose 9% on Friday, gold at $4560 an ounce (Original Post) bucolic_frolic 3 hrs ago OP
I call that GDP 4.5% as pure bullshit. Gold and silver have always been a safe haven doc03 3 hrs ago #1

doc03

(38,794 posts)
1. I call that GDP 4.5% as pure bullshit. Gold and silver have always been a safe haven
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 10:37 AM
3 hrs ago

in uncertain times, the presious metal boom doesn't make sense if that is so. I heard one of those coin brokers on
TV hint that Trump may put us back on the gold standard and if so gold could go to $10k. Anyway I am glad I purchased
some gold and silver a few years ago since it has almost tripled in value today. I guess Trump did talk of going on
the gold standard in the past. There is a thought if that is real gold he has plastered all over the WH will he take it with him.

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