How Higher Silver Prices Can Create a Cash-Flow Squeeze for Recyclers 

Higher silver prices can draw more scrap into the market while increasing the cash recyclers need to finance it. Here’s why refinery settlement timing matters.

What Is Gold Backwardation? The Rare Signal That Struck 3 Times in 2025

Gold and silver flashed one of the rarest signals in precious metals three times in 2025. Here’s what backwardation means, why it kept happening, and why physical metal beats a paper promise when it strikes.

What Is Junk Silver? The Old Dimes and Quarters Worth Nearly 50x Their Face Value

Pre-1965 US dimes, quarters, and half dollars carry real silver, no collector premium. Here’s the composition, the melt-value math, and the 1965 history behind them.

Six Paper Claims, One Ounce of Silver: What First Notice Day Reveals

September’s COMEX silver contract hits First Notice Day with 161.8M oz of open interest against just 99.1M oz of registered, deliverable silver. Here’s what the gap means — and doesn’t.

Rick Rule Sold 80% of His Silver. He Won’t Touch His Gold.

Rick Rule sold roughly 80% of his physical silver near $75 an ounce. He hasn’t touched his gold. The fifty-year natural resource veteran explains the framework that separates savings from speculation, why one metal earned a sell signal and the other didn’t, and what actually happens to the rest of your portfolio when gold spikes higher.

Gold Hit a Two-Month High. Then It Pulled Back. The PPI Data That Caused Both Moves Is What Matters.

Gold hit a two-month high on Wednesday, then gave back ground Thursday as energy costs complicated an otherwise clean inflation signal. PPI came in flat. September Fed hike odds fell to 40%. ETF money is returning. Citi put a $90 target on silver. Here are the five developments shaping precious metals right now.

Oil Spiked 7% Yesterday. Silver Sold Off. Today Physical Buyers Are Doing Something Different.

Silver recovered on Friday, July 24, 2026, after falling roughly 3% the prior session when Brent crude surged 7% above $100. Brent retreated below $100 on Friday as physical buyers stepped back in ahead of the July FOMC meeting. Here is the mechanism — and what the paper-vs-physical divergence tells you about where silver goes next.

What Are the Best Physical Precious Metals Products to Buy During a Correction?

A correction creates buying opportunity — but only if you choose the right product. Here is which physical formats minimize premiums and deliver the most metal per dollar when prices dip.

Gold Is Down 26%. Silver Is Down 51%. What Does the Stacker Do Now?

Gold and silver have pulled back sharply from their January 2026 peaks. The structural case — six consecutive silver deficits, 863 tonnes of central bank gold buying, and a gold-silver ratio above its long-run average — has not changed. This guide covers the floor thesis, how to read the GSR as a strategic compass, and how dollar-cost averaging turns volatility into an advantage.

Silver Is Up Nearly 5% This Morning. Here Is Exactly Why.

Silver is up nearly 5% this morning as mediators proposed a 10-day ceasefire between the US and Iran — and the mechanism behind the move is specific, teachable, and worth understanding before the next one. Here is the full chain: from oil prices to inflation expectations to the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, and what it means for long-term holders.