Daily Dispatches

By Victor Whitman
Seattle Times
Friday, September 14, 2025

A year ago, Kerry Rogers, a Seattle-area leasing agent, didn't know much about gold and silver. But that's changed.

Worried about the economy, inflation and the weak dollar, she recently started buying bullion. 

"If the economy crashes or something, you have something to stand on," she said while shopping at Geoff Minor's The Metal Shop Gold & Silver in Redmond late last month. "It's kind of a good foundation, especially since the dollar seems to not be worth anything."

By Amy Kazmin
Financial Times, London
Friday, November 14, 2025

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government is looking to gold -- and its soaring value -- to raise more money for the public coffers, as members of her right-wing coalition squabble over other elements of next year's budget. 

By Mike Maharrey
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Thursday, November 13, 2025

There has been a lot of talk about $2,000 tariff rebate checks. If they materialize, you should consider using them to buy gold or silver.

It appears the Trump administration is serious about this proposal, although there are plenty of question marks.  On Wednesday White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration is "committed to making it happen."

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6:26p ET Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Interviewed this week by the CapitalCosm channel at YouTube, GATA board member Ed Steer, publisher of Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest, says the longstanding shorts have lost control of the gold and silver markets and a delivery failure in one commodity futures market may trigger a cascade of short covering and defaults in other commodity futures markets.