Our Fearless 2026 Predictions!

Ten things that WON’T HAPPEN in 2026!

Like a fruitcake that keeps being re-gifted, showing up again and again, it’s time for our annual predictions for the New Year.  Read all ten predictions and at the end you’ll discover a little surprise about our list!

10.  The Federal Reserve won’t stop managing the monetary system to benefit the banks that created it to serve their interests in the first place.

9.  Foreign central banks won’t increase their dollar holdings, although they will increase their gold holdings.

8.  Congress won’t reduce federal spending; it won’t stop creating trillion-dollar deficits; and it won’t make a serious attempt to reduce the $38 trillion national debt.    

7.   The Washington establishment won’t hold most of its members to the same legal standards that it applies to the ordinary people.

6.  Washington Republicans and Democrats won’t stop trying to divide the people to win elections.  They will, however, concentrate their attention on smaller divisive issues while the fundamental issues of America’s freedom and prosperity go unaddressed.  

5.  The establishment’s lapdog press won’t bother to report accurately on the fate of the dollar.  Nor will their reporting on gold be accurate.

4.  The establishment lapdog press won’t blame the nation’s monetary problems on the Federal Reserve and the nation’s money manipulators.  It will blame the people instead.   

3.  The jump in deaths and the drop in life expectancy from the Covid interlude has resulted now in some bounce-back, suggesting American life expectancies are increasing. But as we say, it’s bounce-back.  U.S. life expectancy still remains below levels in many peer countries.  There has been a great deal of discussion about the things that can help extend our lifespans, but we believe that the influence of powerful interests will prevail, Americans will forego needed care they find unaffordable, and little meaningful will be done about the declining lifespan of the American people. 

2.  Monetary and fiscal policy won’t stop shrinking the American middle class.

1.  In a crisis, you won’t see people standing in line to exchange their gold for paper money like dollars.  It’s always the other way around.

Now here is the surprise.  

These are basically the same predictions we made last year at the beginning of 2025!  And at the beginning of 2024 and 2023.  And the year before that, at the beginning of 2022.  And at the beginning of 2021.  And 2020.  And 2019!  

Well, actually, they aren’t exactly the same.  As the debt continues to climb, we have to make a change every year to number 8.   Last year this national debt was over $36 trillion.  Now it’s $38.4 trilion.  Which proves the point of the prediction, that Washington won’t stop creating trillion-dollar deficits!  DOGE made a valiant effort to get meaningful spending cuts, but we never underestimate the power of the crony lobbyists and vote-buying politicians.  We hope that we can admit defeat on this prediction and will do so cheerfully this time next year – if we must!

Because these predictions have worked out so well, we dusted them off to re-issue them for 2026 and we will probably do so again next year.  How accurate do you think these predictions will be when we look back on them at the beginning of 2027?  

In the meantime, all we can say is buy gold and silver and have a Happy and Prosperous New Year!