2026: The Year the Metal Hits the Fan

Metals Surge as Fiat Cracks

In 2025, precious and industrial metals didn’t just outperform — they went nuclear:

• Gold surged from $2,640 to a peak of $4,550 — a 72% gain.
• Silver exploded from $29 to over $77, hitting over $90 in Asian markets — 165% gain.
• Platinum leapt from $900 to $2,450 — a 172% gain.
• Copper — the backbone of electrification — jumped from $3.00 to $5.55 — an 85% gain.

This isn’t random market action. This is physical demand screaming louder than the paper market can contain. The old system of COMEX price manipulation is cracking under pressure from sovereign buyers and industrial giants.

When the system snaps — and it will — price discovery won’t be determined in a Wall Street trading room. It’ll happen in warehouses, shipping docks, and the bunkers of central banks.

Mining Stocks Rocket as Supply Fears Take Hold

2025 was a gold rush in equities too. Mining giants and juniors saw eye-popping gains:

• Barrick Mining (GOLD): +187%
• Newmont (NEM): +186%
• First Majestic (AG): +240%
• Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW): +328%
• Banyan Gold (BYAGF): +435%

Why? Because these companies control what now matters most: pounds in the ground. As fiat bleeds out and digital currencies like FedNow prepare to enslave the public through programmable credits, real metal in the Earth becomes the only bank account worth a damn.

Even the speculative juniors — once viewed as longshots — are drawing serious capital. Why? Because the world is waking up to the truth: there is not enough metal to go around.

Global Metal Shortage: The Inevitable Payback

Welcome to 2026 — the year the chickens come home to roost.

Years of underinvestment, regulatory chokeholds, and a cultural abandonment of industrial expertise have crippled the supply chain for metals. And now, with electrification, militarization, and global decoupling accelerating, the demand is off the charts.

• Copper: Electrification has gone vertical, but mine output is stagnant. New mines take 10-15 years to build.
• Silver: Solar panels, EVs, and electronics are devouring silver at rates far beyond global production. Industry giants are bypassing refineries and cutting deals directly with miners.
• Platinum: Essential for catalytic converters, electronics, and chemical processing — and South Africa, the biggest producer, is scaling back.
• Gold: Central banks are on a buying spree. The plebs? Left out in the cold.

This isn’t just a commodity squeeze. It’s a global resource war, and if you’re not holding real metal, you’re a casualty waiting to happen.

China’s Economic Decoupling: The Spark That Lit the Fuse

China, already two years into a metal embargo against the West, is now halting all exports of refined silver as of January 1, 2026. That alone explains the fever pitch in recent buying.

Meanwhile, U.S. corporations are scrambling to “de-China” their supply chains, but it’s too little, too late. The U.S. industrial base has been hollowed out. The grid is fragile. The infrastructure is outdated. And the regulators are still living in fantasyland.

A coming conflict with China isn’t a conspiracy — it’s a contingency. And metals, not dollars, will be the true ammunition.

The Inevitable Flood into Metals

Right now, less than 3% of global investors own any precious metals. Less than 1% have even 10% of their net worth in gold or silver.

But as the mainstream wakes up to the collapse of trust in fiat currencies, the capital exodus into metals will be biblical.

And when that trickle becomes a flood, your stack of physical gold and silver will be more valuable than any line of credit or digital wallet.

Final Warning: Get Out of Paper, Get Into Metal

This isn’t a dress rehearsal. This is the real thing.

The fake economy is unraveling. FedNow and its ilk are waiting to lock you into a digital cage of programmable currency, where your “money” expires, is geofenced, or shut off with a keystroke.

But gold can’t be deleted. Silver can’t be censored. Copper doesn’t care about your social credit score.

If you want to survive the coming digital monetary takeover, you need real assets in your possession — now.

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Derek Wolfe, signing off. Stay sharp. Stay free.