all-time-high in SILVER + gold + copper TODAY

there is the next all-time-high in silver price today. okay, (just) a nominal all-time high per 1 ounce in USD at $69.45, not an inflation adjusted or an relative all-time-high against some tangible asset like gold.

i've started this blog abt SILVER, but later came also the price of GOLD above its october 2025 record mark and COPPER stands higher than its all-time-high from last frida, too. i didn't look-up zinc, nickel and other metals yet ...  i 💖Ag, Au, Cu because my stock market portfolio is still heavily commodities-oriented (maybe around 80%), although if i've increased or bought new positions in many of the so popular american technology and AI stocks recently (google, oracle, nvidia, broadcom, arista, cisco, HP, dell, amazon, open, iren, quantum computing, AT & T, poet, ... and added some stocks of the  german software company SAP on top.

the former all time high in SILVER before 2025 was the hunt brothers' short-squeeze intraday spike of $50 in 1981. in 2011 came the price close to this 'magical treshold' to approx $48. this year started the silver price at $28.97 and moved the silver price in the range from $28.29 and $69.45, so there were many all-time-highs down the road recently, you know?

the 2025 year ranges for my 3 favorite investment metals:

• Ag, silver, 28.29 - 69.45 USD per troy ounce (@comex)
• Au, gold, 2,595.90 - 4,385.55 USD per troy ounce (@comex)
• Cu, copper, 9,524.67 - 11.952 USD per metric ton (@LME)

what abt inflation? lets measure it with the 'official' american CPI (consumer price index) provided by the u.s. government, the real inflation at the shop counters is often much higher, isnt it?

 #1 all-time aka 100 years silver chart

source: miningvisuals.com

the hunt brothers price manipulation in 1980 explained by google's AI here

#2 CPI adjusted prices ... CPI = consumer price index ... remember, the hunt brothers' peak of $50 in january 1980 (equals $208 in 11/2025) was just a rigged paper market value for very short time. you could buy silver at $35 (equals $146 in 11/2025) easily back then in 1980 ...

folks, you can use the u.s. CPI calculator provided (aka 

manipulated?) by the u.s. government alone, cant you?

#3 the gold-silver ratio by longtremtrends.com here . that used to be between 25 and 100. right now it equals 64.6 (gold $4437.11 and silver $68.68). also silver is still quite cheap compared to gold in historic measures, isnt it? lets wait mit selling silver stock when this ratio moves in the range around 50, will we?

longtermtrends.com ~ gold-silver-ratio

#4 top silver producers in Q1 and Q2 2025. 

source miningvisuals.com. here are details 

to Q2/2025 (includes the swedish boliden)

i've bought few shares in the companies i've had no postions yet in the last 2 weeks: fresnillo, (hindustan zinc?), souther copper, MAG silver does not exist any more as it was taken over by pan american silver (PAAS), glencore, buenaventura, zijin + boliden (Q2/2025). it was not possible to buy shares in san cristobal mines (state owned company?) and volcan. to buy hindustan zinc in india is also quite complicated, so lets see whether i'll get it or not ... here moved the price up like crazy the last few weeks, so i'm not sure to buy it even if all hurdles would be resolved this week ....

#5 my top portfolio holdings are still only mining companies and especially Cu. Ag, Au based, you see?

amerigo resources (Cu), hudbay minerals (Cu), first majestic silver (Ag), agnico eagle mines (Au), hecla mining (Ag), coeur d'alene mines (Ag), endeavour silver, wheaton precious metals (Au+Ag), avino silver mines (Ag), pan american silver (Ag), discovery silver (Ag), globex mining (explorer, very small projects for all kind of metals)

#6 what were my top movers on a day like that?

#7 probably a suprise for few of my dear readers. NO, it is not gold, silver, copper which rise in price or value. it is the other way round: the value of all major currencies is going down .... so stop measure the value of anything in dollars, euros, yens, swiss franks or the like. start to evalueate in real tangible assets or values ... most suitable measurement for financial assets will most likely be gold, wont it? for emotional assets & values s.th. completely different. lets hope we will discover it soon 😆💕🍀

in case of money, what does all these lines + columns with numbers and letters created by google's gemini AI in my google account today mean? every major currency loses its buying power against gold and silver aproximately 11% per year!!! even the as "stable currency" swiss franc loses 9% per year, which is just a little bit slower then the remaining valuta(s). so please do not tell me again dollar, yen, swiss franc is strong and euro is weak or vice versa, will you? all of them (USD, CAD, YEN, GBP, CHF, ...) just fell apart with different speed😉

gold price increase by currency created by google's gemini AI

silver price increase by currency created by google's gemini AI

btw, i'll update the final ranges & all time highs for AG, Au, Cu at december, 31th, promised 😇

xmas in thailand

well, today is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, isnt it? we dont care because we spent this christmas in cape panwa, at the southeastern part of the phuket island in south thailand, you know? well, lets turn my blog back to 2019, the last time we've been to thailand, which still is one of our most favorite countries in the world. lets enjoy few views at the former capital and in europe not too well known city of ayutthaya 🌞

our hotels cape panwa private + clean beach

... more insights + pictures coming soon ....

any insights out there?

• unlike the buddhist north, south thailand has also a huge muslim population 
• colors, colors, colors ..
• huge contrast between the clean + nice + friendly luxury hotel and heaps of trash in the streets + beaches + in the see .. .soooo sad, if you asked me
• massage, massage, massage ...
• a crazy difference between the low and high tide out there. we can swimm only during the high tide. we have a table with 'best time toi swim' in our room, so it is easy to plan our day
• food is still cheap (3-6 euros per lunch/dinner outside the hotel and even in the hotel i'll get the regional thai dishes bellow 10 euros. drinks, especially alcoholic beverages like beer is more expensive than in munich / germany in both, the supermarkets and in restaurants
• labor still quite cheap, so the massage + pedicure + tailor + laundry + other services still much cheaper than comparable services in germany ...
• it is better to exchange money (euros) in the many currency exchange booths than to exchange in banks or withdraw baht from ATMs ... of course, do not change at the airport or in the hotels
• our cape panwa hotel?
• a really beautiful, clean and nice place to be. huge seaside rooms and few luxury bungallows with own pools, beautiful arranged garden, a funny 100m tram line from the hotel down to the beach, enough sunbeds + sun umbrellas for all geusts at the beach (and probably also at the 2 pools), free of charge shuttle service to the panway bay down the hill to their sister hotel  'kantary' (it is approx 9 minutes walking distance)
• a private beach, which is cleaned every morning by 2 employees and during the day by me .. you will always find some plastic brought by the waves or left over by tourists
• the most guest are from GB, russia + germany, if you ask me. sometimes you also hear some french + italian speaking folks
• there is a former aristocratic house from approx 1910 directly at the beach, which looks like a museum and functions as a beautiful dining place in the evening. you have to make a reservation, the prices + offers are similar to the main breakfast + dinner restaurant 
• anything else? yes, we miss some thai temples here. there is just a small chapel-like tempel down the road between our hotel and the public beach and some symbolic mini indoor temples in buddhist houses / bussinesses
• panwa bay
• kantary bay
• city of phuket ~ day trip planned
• boat tour to phi phi islands (koh phi phi) ~ day trip planned
• jhkljkplkjp

cape panwa ~ panwa bay ~ view from our favorite roof top restaurant

hippie + weedhead restaurant by day ... we wouldnt go in if we'd see this first

hippie restaurant by night

makes sense, isnt it?

more pictures LATER here.

nitra + 1,000 km across slovakia, SK

nitra (neutra, nyitra) in slovakia was the city / area which i almost always left behind without really see it. not so this time 😃

my other looooong & short stops at my almost 1,000 km across slovakia, SK this time?

• pressburg (bratislava) ~ 2 days of mobile work, family, friends ~ western SK
• königberg (nova bana aka new mine) ~ minig city / area in the carpathians similar to the area where my parents were born. although i've been already in few cities of this former mining district altsohl (zvolen) + the beautiful neusohl (banska bystrica) + the unesco heritage schemnitz (banska stiavnica) + the gold mining city with the oldest still operating mint in the world kremnitz (kremnica) before, i will definitely stop by in königsberg (nova bana, újbánya, seunych, regiomontum) some day in the future. it will even be quite easy as the city is directly at the highway from bratislava to my home. okay, even 36 years after the 'color revolution' which replaced the socialist bussiness model by a capitalist one, the highway ends ways before my homelands in the east. capitalism isnt automatically better than socialism, is it?😅 ~ central SK
• moldava nad bodvou (moldau, szepsi) ~ a city with a significant hungarian minority. all other cities mentioned here were formely german settled or with a huge german population. even today there is still a german minority as not all germans were expelled out of their homelands after the lost WWII ~ southeastern SK
• jasov (jossau, joß) ~ eastern SK
• medzev (metzenseifen) ~ eastern SK
• schmöllnitz (smolnik) ~ eastern SK
• einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom) ~ our family graves ~ eastern SK
• göllnitz (gelnica) ~ here we were just to drink few beers 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺in the evening as there is no nice pub / restaurant in einsiedel anymore ~ eastern SK
• neutra (nitra, nyitra) ~ see below

well, this time i could work two days online from my brothers place + visit ice-hockey training of his son at the slovan bratislava youth team + meet few members of my family + visit our family graves in eastern slovakia + ... 

yes, there was already snow in late november. the closest pass (pacansky kopec) over the mountains at 1,000m high was closed for the winter⛄and i had to elude via moldava (moldau) + the gypsy colony jasov (jossau, joß) + medzev (metzenseifen) to the 800m high pass stos (stoss) which is regularly cleared and open all winter.

schmöllnitz/smolnik: the orthodox church (of ukrainian chernobyl refugees

or local orthodox minority? i will learn and clarify later, promissed 😇) 

the young boys + girls of slovan bratislava ice-hockey team

pressburg - bratislava

on the road to the east

the nice castle šomoška at the toilet is maybe an idea for a 

nice stop over some other day ... of course, 

i've to look-up its location at google maps first 😇

moldava nad bodvou (moldau, szepsi)

is it already the next village jasov (jossau, joss)?

the gypsy ghetto ~ jasov (jossau, joß)

medzev (metzenseifen)

the small chapel above schmöllnitz (smolnik) donated by an 

industrialist who survived a car accident approx 100 years ago

schmöllnitz (smolnik)

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einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom) bellow 

the spitznberg mountain 703m

the catholic church

schmöllnitzer bach (smolnicky potok)

einsiedel, part called winkl

einsiedel, the forest cemetery aka totengarten ... the small 

lutheran evangelic church is on the left side out of the picture

R.I.P dear mother

still in einsiedel

these two ladies appear at google maps when you look

for pictures abt einsidel a.d.g (mnisek n./h.)

leaving my homelands ~ there are still few traditional mountain houses in the area

on the road again ~ the mountains im central slovakia

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my last stop for dinner + sightseeing was nitra (neutra)

the agricultural university

CHEAP! a bazaar / lombard for cheap women or just for 

gems / mobile phones / watches and other valuables??

the old grand hotel and the main street

some old houses at the main street

the synagogue in nitra

the synagogue in nitra

the gallery accent

it is dinner time ~ we have been at the nice restaurant celtic cellar in the main street

it is december, winter time, sooo early dark

arts?

finally arts i liked 

good-bye, nitra (neutra), good-bye my native slovakia

very few more pictures here.

eof