Politics Weekend Posting
Even though the US government is shutdown, we can still post on politics 😉Â
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Here is this week’s political posting. Have a great weekend everyone.Â
The U.S. has kinda been at war with Iran for 5 or so years, since Iran has been supplying drones against Ukraine …. and Ukraine is supported by the U.S,
GOLD…….. $3885
PLATINUM…$1604
(apologies if columns don’t align.)
Silver Price Performance: % Annual Change
Year USD AUD CAD CHF CNY EUR GBP INR JPY
2010 +83.0% +60.4% +72.8% +64.9% +76.5% +96.2% +89.8% +74.8% +59.7%
2011 -10.2% -10.2% -7.5% -9.4% -13.7% -6.9% -10.0% +6.9% -14.8%
2012 +8.3% +6.7% +5.6% +5.5% +7.5% +6.2% +3.5% +11.6% +22.2%
2013 -35.9% -25.2% -31.3% -37.6% -37.6% -38.5% -37.0% -27.4% -22.1%
2014 -19.6% -12.1% -11.9% -10.3% -17.4% -8.5% -14.3% -17.8% -8.3%
2015 -11.5% -0.7% +6.2% -11.0% -7.3% -1.5% -6.4% -7.0% -11.1%
2016 +17.3% +18.8% +13.9% +19.2% +25.6% +20.9% +40.1% +20.4% +13.9%
2017 +7.1% -1.5% -0.1% +1.8% +0.3% -6.7% -2.7% +0.3% +2.7%
2018 -9.5% +0.3% -1.8% -8.7% -4.3% -5.1% -4.1% -1.5% -11.9%
2019 +15.5% +16.0% +9.8% +13.8% +16.9% +19.2% +11.0% +18.1% +14.4%
2020 +47.5% +34.4% +44.7% +35.0% +38.4% +35.4% +43.2% +51.5% +40.2%
2021 -11.5% -6.2% -12.1% -10.0% -13.9% -5.6% -10.5% -9.8% -1.3%
2022 +2.9% +9.9% +10.2% +4.1% +11.6% +9.3% +15.3% +14.2% +17.0%
2023 -1.2% -1.4% -3.8% -10.3% +1.3% -4.8% -6.7% -0.7% +6.5%
2024 +21.7% +33.2% +31.9% +30.8% +25.5% +29.2% +23.5% +25.0% +35.7%
2025 +61.5% +51.4% +56.6% +41.9% +57.5% +42.6% +50.3% +67.4% +51.0%
Average 10.3% 10.9% 11.5% 7.5% 10.4% 11.3% 11.6% 14.1% 12.1%
October 3, 2025
Gold prices are up 1,075% from 2000 to 2025 (YTD as of July 3)
On average, gold has delivered a 10.9% annual return over 25 years
2025 is one of gold’s best years in terms of returns, up 27% as of July 3, 2025
AS OF JULY…. what is it NOW…….46.2%…..
2020 25.1%
2021 -3.6%
2022 -0.4%
2023 13.2%
2024 27.2%
2025 YTD 27.0%….. note correction…. 46%
SILVER has FAILED to reach the all time high…. of $49.85 going back to 1980…
and did not pass that number in the last bull run…
WHEN IT BREAKS…..$50 and stays above… then we know we have a GAME PLAN
One of the reasons I tried to post annual gains of silver is very simply to show volatility…….
it can go down double digits as well as up double digits.
(unlike the dollar’s value or purchase power, which stays in single digits (mostly))
Thus silver price does not totally correlate with supply and demand or anti-correlate with dollar buying power. (Although those are the long-term trends)
The Supreme Court just overturned two Sicko San Francisco court rulings re: removing illegal immigrants.
Traitor Biden had given protected status to all Venezuelan illegals. (about 500,000, with 300,000 grifting on tax-payer money.) Trump had removed that status and
started to deport felons……only to be stopped by unelected Californian “judges”.
The Supreme Court returned Constitutional Executive powers.
Meanwhile in South Chicago…….
Is everyone prepared for the potential breakout of war against Iran? Under distraction of the peace plan in Gaza… Or maybe an attack on Venezuela?
The peace President and the 20 point plan… Ritter rant 59 on substack has a link to rant 58…
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/ritters-rant-059-censorship