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
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...
It's getting harder and harder to pretend the inflation problem isn't a problem.Last month, the markets and the mainstream media threw a party when the CPI data came in "cooler than expected." CNBC led with this rosy summary. “U.S. stocks...
When I was a little kid, one of the highlights of a trip out with my grandmother was getting a penny to stick in the gumball machine. Back in the early 1970s, a penny would get me several small gumballs or one giant one – depending on the...
Dollars are the DEI hire of money.Dollars identify as money, but, well...Why do people get so upset about mandated DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies, anyway?Because they know that when a policy mandates a specific number of a...
The Federal Reserve may finally have another scapegoat for the inflation it created – tariffs.Two Fed officials recently warned about the possible inflationary consequences of President Trump’s aggressive tariff policies.Of broad-based...
The silver market is forecast to record a fifth straight market deficit in 2025, with demand once again outstripping supply.Analysts at the Silver Institute call the projected market deficit “sizeable.” The Silver Institute projects...
Pages
