Expect The Precious Metals Rally To Continue In 2026

Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, 2025 was an extraordinary year for precious metals. Gold, silver, and platinum each outperformed other asset classes, including equities, bitcoin (2024’s best performer), and even indexes tracking artificial intelligence (AI)—one of 2025’s most popular investment themes. Silver and platinum rose by approximately 170 percent in 2025, while gold returned a highly respectable 73 percent. Among AI stocks, only Palantir outperformed gold. Why such stellar performance from assets once derided by governments as “barbarous relics” and shunned by investors as outdated? The reason I wrote at the start of last year that we…