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Money Metals News Alert
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February 17, 2025
– Gold and silver held on to some gains last week despite volatile trading
on Friday in which both metals ended down. Stocks finished higher, the dollar
weakened against other major currencies, and 10-year bond yields were near flat.
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Activity in the U.S.
retail bullion markets has picked up some in February – both buying and
selling. Higher prices are attracting those inclined to sell as well as
speculative buyers who are optimistic given the price action.
Tightness remains in
available COMEX bar inventories. Premiums in the Exchange of Futures for Physical
moved higher once again, after some reprieve the week prior.
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The cost to borrow shares in the ETF
markets also remains extraordinarily high – likely because Authorized
Participants are borrowing shares in order to redeem them for bars.
Gold bugs are also watching
inventories in London. The rate of gold leaving London for the U.S. appears
unprecedented.
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Gold : Silver Ratio (as of
Friday's closing prices) – 89.4 to
1
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Money, Morality, and DOGE
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Ayn Rand thought a lot about the
philosophy of money. She understood gold as money functioned beyond providing safe
haven, a store of value, and a medium of exchange. It has moral and cultural
implications. People refer to it as ???honest money??? for a reason.
Below is an excerpt from Francisco???s
money speech in the novel Atlas Shrugged. It would be wonderful if the entire
speech were read, and understood, widely. As American taxpayers wake up to how
badly officials have treated their money, Rand???s words are timely.
???Whenever destroyers
appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men???s protection
and the base of a moral existence.
Destroyers seize gold
and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective
standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of
values.
Gold was an objective
value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does
not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it."
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Most Americans, particularly those in
Washington DC, have never considered the moral implications of our current
monetary system. They aren???t good.
Money, and those who earn it, should
garner more respect than they do today – especially among bureaucrats and
politicians.
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This respect was once
commonplace. The dollar used to be as ???good as gold.???
People proudly traded
their labor and invested their capital in exchange for something real, beautiful,
scarce and valuable.
Their time and effort was
precious and they exchanged it for something equally as precious – gold (and
silver) dollars.
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Now Americans exchange time and effort
for fiat dollars which get closer to their true value of zero every year. And they
shoulder a portion of the perpetual servitude inherent in a system of debt based
money, income taxation, and unlimited government.
The rest of that burden will be
shouldered by future generations when they inherit the paper IOU money, the
mountain of debt, and the corrupt system backing it all, instead of gold.
What should we expect when so much
money is simply borrowed into existence?
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Americans have mostly
stood by as the national debt exploded to $36 trillion. Would they have allowed
that if all the borrowing had to be repaid with money which could not be printed,
and had to be earned?
Should we be surprised
when bureaucrats, with no vested interest in the outcomes, treat the billions of
borrowed and printed dollars like monopoly money?
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Politicians and bureaucrats spent a
lot less on boondoggles when dollars were backed by gold. That is no accident.
Those dollars were hard to come by, even in government.
At one time, printing and borrowing
was not an easy option for politicians. And few had the temerity to attempt a tax
increase. Citizens would never have stood for it – handing over their
precious coins to be spent on such nonsense.
If Americans want lasting honesty in
Washington DC, reinstituting honest money will have to be part of the answer.
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This week's Market Update was
authored by Money Metals Director Clint Siegner.
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