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Craig Hemke: What's next for silver prices?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Craig Hemke
Sprott Money, Toronto
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

After making new all-time intraday highs last week, there are all sorts of prognostications regarding what's next for the silver price. Let's discuss the most likely scenario. 
 
First and foremost, we need to establish that this time is different. The situation economically, monetarily, and physically is entirely different from 1980 and 2011. If you don't understand what I mean, please check out this post from two weeks ago:

Paul Brownstein: Gold and silver investors, meet The Hammer, aka Mister Slammy

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Paul Brownstein
Chartsandparts.substack.com
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Gold and silver don't just trade on supply and demand. They trade on control -- the kind powerful institutions use when rising precious metals threaten the stability of the financial system.

Here is a simple look at how that control works: a daily effort in the paper markets to keep precious metals from breaking out,
and what it means when the effort becomes constant.

Meet The Hammer -- Mister Slammy -- Goliath.

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Elliott builds stake in Barrick amid speculation company might be broken up

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Leslie Hook, Oliver Barnes, and Arash Massoudi
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Activist hedge fund Elliott Management has built a large stake in Barrick Mining, according to people familiar with the matter, after the world's second-largest gold producer struggled to capitalise on a blistering bullion rally.

Indonesia plans taxes of up to 15% on gold exports next year

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gayatri Suroyo
Reuters
Monday, November 17, 2025

JAKARTA -- Indonesia will charge taxes on exports of gold of between 7.5% and 15% in a plan that will be implemented some time next year, a senior finance ministry official said today.

The tax policy, currently being finalised, is being designed so that lower rates are applied to processed goods to help encourage domestic processing, Febrio Kacaribu, the ministry's director general of fiscal strategy, told a parliamentary hearing.

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GATA secretary discusses many gold topics in interview with Soar Financially

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:05p ET Sunday, November 16, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Your secretary/treasurer was interviewed at the New Orleans Investment Conference by Soar Financially's Kai Hoffman, discussing the continuing intervention against gold by central banks in the London and New York markets, the steady transfer of physical gold from West to East, and the realization by many governments and central banks that gold remains the ultimate money and that the United States no longer can be trusted as the custodian of foreign assets.

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Mike Maharrey: They shot the penny, killing the messenger

Section: Daily Dispatches

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

The government killed the penny.

RIP.

It was tantamount to shooting the messenger.

On Wednesday, the Philadelphia Mint produced the final five circulating pennies. ...

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https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2025/11/13/they-shot-the-penny-killing-the-messenger-004478