I took a look at the US fiscal ledger, and it's pretty interesting. Right now, the national debt has piled up to $38.4 trillion, and just paying the interest each year costs $1.22 trillion. Meanwhile, the federal government only brings in a little over $5 trillion a year from taxes, service fees, tariffs, and so on. That means a quarter of its income goes directly to paying interest, and this ratio is still climbing.

In a few years, debt interest payments could very well surpass any single budget item, pushing major expenses like social welfare and military spending further down the list.

So what am I trying to say with these numbers? Basically, under this kind of debt pressure, the case for safe-haven assets like gold and silver is actually pretty strong. Even if prices pull back in the short term, how far do you really think they can fall?