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PRICE ALERT: Silver
has dropped 80 CENTS this morning and gold
is down $20. Take advantage of falling prices and our product
specials.
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Money Metals News Alert
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January 13, 2025
– Volatility in gold and silver prices is increasing. After strong
performance last week, both metals have pulled back sharply again today.
Demand for available 1,000 oz silver
bars and kilo gold bars is exceptionally strong in the U.S. currently.
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Some of this demand stems
from speculation that Donald Trump will impose tariffs on imported gold and
silver, and investors are grabbing available stocks before any new tariffs are in
place.
There is a significant
premium being paid for bars in the U.S. versus London spot prices.
The arbitrage opportunity
is driving significant buying in London and elsewhere for fast export to the U.S.
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This is a problem for shorts who need
to cover their position in the near term. Their troubles may be compounded
because inventory in the London Vaults has been in decline.
And while eligible inventories of bars
have risen slightly in the U.S., the most recent report shows registered
inventories – bars with warrants attached and ready for delivery in a Comex
warehouse – are not rising.
Tightness in the large bar market
could put a squeeze on concentrated short-sellers unless they have control of
deliverable metal inside the U.S. already.
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Gold : Silver Ratio (as of
Friday's closing prices) – 88.3 to
1
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Sound Money Would Check Government More Than
DOGE Can
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Many Americans are rooting for Donald
Trump and his appointees to succeed in their herculean task of slowing or
reversing government growth.
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Along with the ad hoc
working group dubbed the ???Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),??? there is
much discussion about how runaway big government might be stopped. But there
hasn???t yet been talk about how to keep it that way.
Making sure future
administrations and legislatures can???t undo or erode important reforms needs to be
part of the plan.
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Laws, unfortunately, aren???t enough.
The Founders drafted the U.S. Constitution to put strict limits on the power and
size of the federal government. They would be deeply saddened by how faithfully
that document has been interpreted and followed.
While the Constitution gets most of
the attention, it was not the only mechanism our Founders implemented to limit
government. They gave us free and decentralized money and purposely avoided
creating a central bank.
In reality, a true sound money
system could be the most effective constraint on government growth and power.
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For the majority of the
nation???s history, gold and silver served as the official money. The Federal
Reserve Bank was established in 1913, but the currency it issued was redeemable in
gold until President Nixon put a complete end to that in 1971.
It is no accident the
period between 1776 to 1913 – and, a lesser extent, 1913 to 1971 – was
one of limited government.
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It is also easy to see what happens to
the size of government and deficit spending when politicians throw off the
shackles of sound money and embrace fiat money.
According to the Cato
Institute, Government spending as a percentage of overall GDP is roughly
2-½ times larger than it was in 1971. It is ten times what it was in 1913,
when the central planners hatched their Federal Reserve scheme to establish a
government-charted, privately owned banking cartel.
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The chart below shows the growth in
federal debt. The explosion was not possible before Nixon pulled the plug on the
gold standard and the Federal Reserve replaced gold and silver backed currency
with Federal Reserve Notes.
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Since the gold standard went
completely out the window in 1971, the only ???constraint" on federal debt has been
the debt ceiling, which legislators routinely adjust higher.
The current Congress will undoubtedly
raise the ceiling again in a few months. The law has effectively provided no
limit, but a gold standard worked great for nearly 200 years.
If the Trump administration succeeds
in reining in government, restoring sound money is the best way to ensure the
politicians who come next won???t screw it up.
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This week's Market Update was
authored by Money Metals Director Clint Siegner.
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