Mike Maharrey
Mike Maharrey is a journalist and market analyst for MoneyMetals.com with over a decade of experience in precious metals. He holds a BS in accounting from the University of Kentucky and a BA in journalism from the University of South Florida.
Articles by Mike Maharrey
The silver market is forecast to record a fifth straight market deficit in 2025, with demand once again outstripping supply, and the majority of the existing above ground silver stocks are not available to satisfy demand -- at any price....
The U.S. dollar has long served as a safe haven. A Deutsche Bank analyst says that status may be at risk.Several factors make the dollar a go-to asset during times of uncertainty.Its reserve currency statusThe size of the dollar market and...
Silver imports into India rose sharply last month, hitting the highest January level since Metals Focus began tracking the data in 2008.Silver imports rose by 37 percent year on year to 875 tonnes.This jump in imports happened despite...
Last month, the Federal Reserve paused interest rate cuts due to sticky price inflation. This indicates tighter monetary policy moving forward. However, market observers tend to ignore the second prong of monetary policy --...
The Federal Reserve has put interest rate cuts on pause due to sticky price inflation. The move makes sense, but why did the Fed start slashing interest rates in the first place? It was clear that the inflation monster...
Silver has quietly had a strong start to 2025, with the price up 12.6 percent. However, it remains significantly underpriced compared to gold from a historical perspective with the gold-silver ratio still above 90-1. The...
If archeologists 2,000 years from now find a jar of U.S. quarters minted in 2025, how excited would they be?I'm sure they would find it interesting from a historical perspective. But how much would those quarters really be worth?I got to...
My grandfather used to say, “Don’t take any wooden nickels.”The idiom basically meant, “Be careful! Don’t get cheated.”Back in the day, small banks and merchants sometimes handed out novelty wooden nickels as promotional items. Of course,...
Christmas 2024 was brought to you by Visa, Mastercard, et al. Was this the last gasp of an American consumer buried under mountains of debt?Retail sales were strong in December (up 0.7 percent). Economists and pundits lauded the "strength...
DOGE has got its work cut out for it.Even as the new Department of Government Efficiency ferrets out wasteful spending, the constant budget deficits serve as a sobering reminder of just how much the federal government overspends month...
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