Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com:
Every Sunday morning I sit down to write a few thoughts.
Sometimes these thoughts end up being about life, other times they are on gold, geopolitical issues affecting the markets, or the economy.
Here are three thoughts for this morning (Plus, one bonus!):
1. Apparently now, every metal is a critical mineral. Friend, when it comes to metals and commodities this is what the turn around looks like.
The S&P 500 to Commodity index ratio keeps hitting record highs.
Tech is booming.
While commodities are drowning near bottom.
When it comes to the markets, they have an inverse relationship.
Here’s what that has looked like the past 50 years or so…
Every tech boom, equities sUrGe…
Fiat money pumps the tech stocks as investors lose interest in boring commodities…
But there are times when gold, silver, and commodities shoot up in price. For example, every time the chart above trends down commodity prices go up. Especially, gold.
If the AI Bubble doesn’t keep driving the economy up, then we could be seeing the same action.
Aside from gold, silver and platinum reaching new all-time-highs…
As far as evidence goes, there’s this:
(A lot of people were excited about it a few months ago. Silver was added to the “critical minerals” list. Now it’s official.)
Mining.com reports:
USGS officially adds copper, silver to critical minerals list
“The United States has added copper and silver to an expanded list of critical minerals that it deems to be vital to America’s economy and national security.
The new list, compiled by the US Geological Survey, includes 10 additions to the previous one in 2022, taking the total to 60. The other notable additions are: uranium, metallurgical coal, potash, rhenium, silicon and lead. The addition of copper and silver confirms the earlier draft list proposed by USGS.”
Are there any minerals NOT on this list?
Ok, gold.
2. This is what happens to men when governments take away guns from the citizens…when they start wars…and when they go around policing the world.
This Tuesday, November 11 is Remembrance Day here in Canada. It will also be Remembrance Day in England, and Veteran’s Day in the United States.
So, the British legacy media wanted to get someone on camera for the likes…
What they got was an old veteran espousing outdated values in front of a country he fought for, and no longer recognized.
🚨BREAKING: British veteran breaks down live on TV over state of the country:
"Rows and rows of white tombs for what? A country of today? No, I'm sorry. The sacrifice wasn't worth the result.
I fought for freedom, and it's darn-sight worse now than when I fought." pic.twitter.com/4guu3xojFY
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) November 7, 2025
Memes in the comments are worth a look.
Even though, nowadays we go about all this pageantry praising women for their bravery decoding enemy messaging, operating switch boards, and producing bullets when it’s always the men at the front lines.
Men fighting for values…
One of the biggest being freedom.
Well, in Western society the freedom to become a whole person, or… one’s self has become so highly valued it’s become toxic.
The veteran in the video is upset because freedom has been abused to point that everything he fought for…his friends that died…His effort, bloodshed, and tears…
They’ve all become irrelevant.
And the broadcasters didn’t even try to understand.
They just cut him off.
3. What happens next for silver will show you the direction for the whole market. It will tell you whether the market is headed away from tech stocks and toward commodities, or not. If not, the AI Bubble will continue to grow.
Silver shorts hit a new all-time high this week.
It’s important because silver is a secondary precious metal to gold. Typically, it lags behind gold, and then follows gold’s price movement.
So silver tends to get set on the backburner of the commodity market trend.
That being said, the market’s resistance to silver pushing up further and harder has never been stronger.
If silver can continue to push upwards, despite market calls against it, then the trend really is moving toward commodities.
The thing is, last time this happened was about three weeks ago…
And then silver trended down.
See what I mean? –v
Dear silver shorts, are you panicking yet? https://t.co/sWneGquRG7 pic.twitter.com/KnrbaqxFSX
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 13, 2025
So, we’ll see.
Like I said, if the massive amount of silver shorts are proven right then the AI / Tech Bubble may continue to grow.
3.5. The real father of Chelsea Clinton has been…found! It’s ‘Hide the Pain Harold.” The smile is uncanny. Great genes, huh?
3 thoughts on "3 Sunday Morning Thoughts – November 9 Edition"
The British veteran video took me back to Remembrance Day 1969 when my father introduced me to a number of his WW2 RCAF squadron mates. If these gentlemen were still alive today, no doubt their feelings about the war would echo the British veteran’s sentiments. When Canada’s newly elected (1968) PM’s name arose, there was a distinct lack of enthusiasm in the room. Upon my asking what their beef with Trudeau was, one pilot replied, “He’s not one of us, we were all volunteers, no draftees among us, Trudeau wasn’t even a draftee, he was a draft dodger. Suffice to say, there’s nothing right or honorable about him whatsoever.”
Peter, Thanks for adding to the bit about Pierre Trudeau. It’s important to remember this history and lineage.
Chelsea?
Not even close. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear and HILLARY is a sows ear!