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FRANK HOLMES: Global Currency Wars, Gold, & the Extinction of Coinage

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Silver is now a strategic metal, key for weaponry, as money printing shifts from welfare to national security.

2026 opens with a jumpy metals tape. Mike Gleason says gold and silver have already made 2025 look quiet, with silver moving into territory that sounded far off not long ago and trading at more than triple its level from a year earlier. From there, the episode turns to Mike Meharry's interview with Frank Holmes: disappearing small coinage, possible Fed rate cuts, gold's run, silver's job in the market, currency wars, and why Holmes does not think gold is overcrowded. Silver is the main thread. Holmes treats it as more than a speculative metal. To him, it sits inside electrification, batteries, and state power. A side trip into online conspiracy-style silver content becomes a point about AI-driven storytelling and the way it can pull attention toward silver without obvious coin selling. Then Holmes moves back to supply and policy. China sits close to the center of his argument because Europe depends on Chinese batteries after also leaving itself exposed on energy. Europe takes the hard knock here. Holmes says it outsourced too much, leaned on Putin for energy and LNG, and now has to buy LNG elsewhere. Tariffs, in his view, are only the visible part of parallel fights over a multipolar economy and Chinese dominance. Greenland gets airtime too, though Holmes says the loud headlines can distract from minerals, defense budgets, and national economic protection. Trump fits into that same argument. Holmes says Trump is pushing others toward accountability, stronger protection of their own economies, and a move from 2% to 5% defense spending. He says military spending is already showing up in markets, pointing to European armament stocks rising 100% over the past year. The episode closes with Money Metals business: Gleason asks listeners to subscribe, rate the podcast, and contact Money Metals for gold and silver coins, bars, and rounds.

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A blunt metals update that treats gold and silver as policy stories, not just price moves.

This weekly market wrap stays grounded in the metals tape, linking silver's sharp surge and gold's steadier climb to expected Fed rate cuts, debt pressure, and questions of trust.

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