Welcome to another edition of The Chicks on the Right podcast. Very excited today to have with us, Dr. Mike Fulgens, who is the numismatic consultant with First Fidelity Reserve, which is, by the way, where we get our gold and silver. And we want to pick your brain a little bit about the state of precious metals right now, starting with gold, which topped three grand an ounce for the first time ever, and it's on track

to keep right on growing. And even when everybody else was like all super skeptical, you were

predicting that it would grow and you were right. So how much higher is it going to go?

Well, I got a chance to interview Steve Forbes in Nashville in October of 2023.

And we both agreed about where the dollar was, what central banks were buying more.

And we thought gold would hit 2,500 and 24, and it did.

And we think it'll hit 3,500 this year.

And Bank of America and Citibank agree with us.

And the London bullion market analysts, over 20 of them, agree it's going to go up substantially.

Because increased central bank buying, increased exchange trade fund buying.

And frankly, people around the world, not just the United States, are concerned about uncertainty.

And a lot of buying

for IRAs, investment retirement accounts. I promised you I wouldn't use acronym, sorry.

No worries. Oh, my goodness. Silver is the same way too, right? Because silver is seeing a gain in

2024. It was up, what, 24% in 2024 and then 10% and 2025.

So do you expect that to continue as well?

Well, industrial demand has grown over the last four years.

It has been shortfall in supply.

And I do expect, and again, the London Bullion market analysts saw about a 40% increase coming this year. And many people think silver can get up over $35 to $40.

And we see gold at $3,500. So it's a good place to put apart.

I'm with a number of people you would recognize and they say 20% in gold, rare coins, and

precious metals, either in your IRA or your investment portfolio.

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