How Can You Not Love Precious Metals Right Now?

Gold and silver prices have turned a strong performance over the past few years.

How could they not with the way the dollar has been devalued?

And honestly, what could possibly stop them going forward?

Let’s be real about some things…

Our government is a mess. 

Mass layoffs, mass deportations, and mass tariffs haven’t done anything to correct our ever-climbing deficit. 

They haven’t ingratiated us to the rest of the world, either, or reaffirmed confidence in the U.S. dollar. 

Inflation has been a constant source of frustration for the entire country ever since the pandemic, which now feels like ancient history. 

And now the Fed is cutting rates. 

We’re literally cutting interest rates into an inflationary cycle and just hoping that will be OK, because the alternative is to stand pat amid mounting job losses.

So is it any wonder gold and silver are running loose?

Again, I ask, is there anything standing in their way?

No. 

There’s not. 

For the duration of this commodities bull market, the only thing that’s been missing is an awakening among retail investors. 

Somehow, some way, precious metals have been hiding in plain sight — drowned out by the noise of AI, crypto, self-driving cars, air taxis, wars, and a positively toxic political climate. 

But that’s changing — and it’s changing fast. 

Gold ETFs recorded an inflow of $38 billion in the first half of 2025 with their collective holdings rising by 397.1 metric tons, according to the World Gold Council. 

As a result, total holdings have eclipsed 3,616 tons. That’s the largest figure since August 2022 and flirting with the record 3,915 tons established in October 2020. 

The price of gold itself is up 26% this year, setting a series of record highs and doubling the return of the S&P 500.

Silver, meanwhile, is on track to surpass its all-time high of $48.70 an ounce — a feat we haven’t seen  in 45 years.

Don’t sleep on that. 

When gold set that record high all the way back in 1980, it shot up from less than $6.00 an ounce to do it. 

That’s a whopping 700% surge — enough to make even a modest investor a fortune. 

Not only that, but silver miners went wild. 

One tiny junior, Lion Mines, went from $0.07 in 1976 to $380 by 1980 — a 542,000% moonshot and one of the most legendary runs in market history.

If that kind of a return seems out of reach today, you haven’t been paying attention. 

Because, as I said, we are definitely in the thick of a precious metals bull.

It’s raging. 

We don’t have to speculate about it. We don’t need to see any more data. 

It’s all right there in the open for everyone to see and profit from. 

Remember, silver is a much smaller, thinner market than gold. So when money pours in, the price impact is magnified. There’s also the added pressure of industrial demand.

With that, it’s not uncommon for silver to multiply gold’s returns by four or five times when these things get cranking. 

So if you want to see returns on the scale of Lion Mines and be on the winning side of a generational breakout… 

Check out this short list of silver stocks my friend and colleague Jason Williams put together. 

He’s got four silver stocks that are primed to blow up. And even an extra gold play, to boot. 

Fight on,

Jason Simpkins

Simpkins is the founder and editor of Secret Stock Files, an investment service that focuses on companies with assets — tangible resources and products that can hold and appreciate in value. He covers mining companies, energy companies, defense contractors, dividend payers, commodities, staples, legacies and more… He also serves as editor of The Crow’s Nest where he analyzes investments beyond the scope of the defense sector.

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