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The U.S. Dollar Index is testing a key technical level that has triggered major rebounds in the past—making this an important setup for commodities and precious metals investors to watch closely. The U.S. dollar has fallen sharply since the start of the year, which has boosted commodity prices—especially metals like gold and silver—due to their inverse relationship. This decline stems from several factors, including a plunging stock market that triggered foreign capital outflows, rising recession risks and expectations of future interest rate cuts, and growing uncertainty over America’s new tariff policies. But after three months of steady declines, the dollar now finds itself at a key crossroads—one that will significantly influence its next move, as well as how commodities and precious metals respond from here. The crossroads lies in the fact that the U.S. Dollar Index—a measure of the dollar’s exchange rate against a basket of major world currencies (not its domestic purchasing power)—is now sitting right at a major long-term support level around 100. Jesse Colombo Money Metals - Buy Gold, Silver & Precious Metals for Investment #USDollar #USD #PreciousMetals #Investing #Economy

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The monetary regime has immediate consequences for our behavior—as individuals, institutions, and financial entities. One underappreciated victim of the fiat age is long-dated bonds. When price predictability of the money is strong, and commitment to the monetary regime is credible, you can finance projects or business ventures over very long time frames—especially if you think those ventures or institutions will be around by then. Money Metals - Buy Gold, Silver & Precious Metals for Investment Sound Money Defense League #CenturyBonds #Treasuries #Bonds #Gold #SoundMoney

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Demand for gold is so strong in China that the government has allocated additional gold import quotas for commercial banks. According to a Bloomberg article, strong haven demand from institutional and retail investors led to the move. China ranks as the world’s largest gold market. The government uses import quotas to limit the amount of gold flowing into the country. According to unnamed sources in China, the government upped the quotas last week to satisfy the significantly increased appetite for bullion. Officials say commercial banks requested the additional quotas. The Bloomberg article notes that the gold price has doubled in yuan terms since 2022. Michael Maharrey Money Metals - Buy Gold, Silver & Precious Metals for Investment #China #Gold #Geopolitics #Economy #CentralBanks

The American economy is a bubble. The thing about bubbles is that they eventually pop. All they need is a pin. Tariff policy might be the pin that pops this bubble, but even if it isn’t, there is a pin out there with this bubble's name on it. I’ve been calling this a “debt-riddled, bubble economy" for months (years, really), but this isn’t a term you often hear bandied about in the mainstream media. So, I was surprised to run across a Reuters article last week headlined, “There’s no easy escape from the U.S. bubble economy.” As with most mainstream economic analysis, the article focused on Trump administration policies, calling them “an existential threat to the American bubble economy.” Michael Maharrey Money Metals - Buy Gold, Silver & Precious Metals for Investment #USEconomy #Bubble #StockMarket #Geopolitics #FederalReserve

The world is worried. And typically in such an environment, investors across the globe rush to three safe havens: the U.S. dollar, U.S. Treasuries, and gold. This time is different — because they’re dumping the greenback and Treasuries... and buying gold hand over fist. Brien Lundin Money Metals - Buy Gold, Silver & Precious Metals for Investment #Gold #Treasuries #Investing #DeDollarization #Geopolitics

My expectations are being fully confirmed as Chinese gold trading activity and prices both surge—and now even Bloomberg has taken notice with a fascinating article on what’s unfolding. Since last fall, I’ve been advancing a theory that China’s aggressive futures traders—who were behind gold’s initial $400 breakout one year ago that launched this bull market—would soon reassert themselves and help drive gold from around $2,500 to $3,000 and beyond. Sure enough, I’m pleased to report that my thesis is unfolding exactly as anticipated—evidenced by a surge in gold futures trading volume on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE), a renewed rise in Chinese domestic gold premiums over international spot prices, and gold now entering its parabolic, nearly vertical phase. Now, the mainstream media is finally catching on. Bloomberg just published a piece today titled “Gold-Trading Frenzy Erupts in China as Tensions With US Escalate,” confirming that a full-blown Chinese gold boom is underway as investors flock to safety amid a brewing trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Jesse Colombo Money Metals - Buy Gold, Silver & Precious Metals for Investment #China #Gold #Geopolitics #Economy #PreciousMetals

The U.S. government ran the second-largest 6-month budget deficit in history through the first half of fiscal 2025. The March budget shortfall of $160.53 billion pushed the total deficit through the first half of the fiscal year to $1.31 trillion, according to the latest Treasury Department statement. The only larger six-month budget deficit was $1.7 trillion in the first half of fiscal 2021 when the economy was shut down and the government was spending hand-over-first to cope with the pandemic. Through the first six months of fiscal 2025, the U.S. Treasury collected $2.26 trillion. That was slightly above the $2.19 trillion collected through the first half of fiscal 2024. However, according to a Treasury Department official, the 2024 revenue figure was inflated by deferred tax payments from 2023 related to natural disasters. The real problem is on the spending side of the ledger. The Trump administration blew through another $528.17 billion last month. That pushed fiscal year-to-date spending to $3.57 trillion. That’s a 9.8 percent increase in spending from the same period in 2024. Michael Maharrey Money Metals - Buy Gold, Silver & Precious Metals for Investment U.S. Department of the Treasury Federal Reserve Board Maya MacGuineas Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget #NationalDebt #FederalDeficit #Economy #Government #Politics