Rick Rule Predictions

Founder of Rule Investment Media and Battlebank

Track Rick Rule's public market predictions and forecast accuracy. Each prediction is recorded from the date it was published to its estimated deadline, then graded correct or wrong based on the outcome.

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51 forecasts
Person Subject Forecast* Source Date Deadline** Outcome
Rick Rule Fed Funds Rate The Fed will not lower interest rates in calendar year 2026
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[5:48] I think there's less pressure on the US Fed to lower interest rates. I think ultimately they will, but I don't think they'll have to in calendar 2026.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-06 2026-12-31 pending
Rick Rule US Dollar The US Dollar will remain relatively strong in the second half of 2026
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[5:48] I think there's less pressure on the US Fed to lower interest rates. I think ultimately they will, but I don't think they'll have to in calendar two 2026. That means relatively strong US dollar.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-06 2026-12-31 pending
Rick Rule US Economy The US economy will surprise to the downside with weakness in the second half of 2026
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[6:25] I think the economy in the second half of 2026 is going to surprise people for it with its weakness.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-06 2026-10-30 pending
Rick Rule Copper Copper prices will be flat to down in the second half of 2026
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[6:37] I expect as an example the copper quote to be flattened down.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-06 2026-12-31 pending
Rick Rule Gold Gold's nominal price will be markedly higher than current levels (~$4,100) over the next 10 years
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[17:04] I believe make no mistake that over 10 years the gold price the nominal gold price is going to be markedly higher than it is today.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-06 2036-07-06 pending
Rick Rule Energy Sector Oil and gas stocks will outperform other natural resource stocks over the next six months
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[17:22] I think right now that the oil quote and the oil stocks are in freefall and the oil market is a better market than any other natural resource stock. So if I looked at what I'm likely to allocate to the most over the next six months, it's likely to be the oil and gas business.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-06 2027-01-06 pending
Rick Rule Royalty And Streaming Companies Gold royalty and streaming companies will have their best 10-year period ever over the next decade
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[22:06] I believe that both the royalty and the streaming companies have the best 10 years that they've ever had in front of them in terms of allocation.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-06 2036-07-06 pending
Rick Rule Gold Miners Gold miners (including Franco-Nevada, Wheaton Precious, Agnico Eagle) will deliver strong returns over the next 5 years
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[41:30] they might not have a good summer, but 5 years from now they won't remember this summer.

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Wealthion 2026-06-25 2031-06-25 pending
Rick Rule Natural Resources Sector Natural resources and junior mining stocks are entering a spectacular bull market period comparable to 2000-2010
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[42:00] I think we're coming into a truly spectacular period of time. The difficulty, and you know this, Trey... Uh I I think we're coming into a period like the early part of the decade 2000 to 2010.

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Wealthion 2026-06-25 2031-06-25 pending
Rick Rule Gold Gold will decline in the very near term
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[3:30] In the very near term, I'm pessimistic as to the gold price.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-06-25 2026-12-31 pending
Rick Rule Interest Rates US interest rates will go higher in the near term
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[1:19] I think in the very near term that US policy makers are prepared to allow the market to set the tone of US interest rates and that suggests to me that interest rates will go higher in the US.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-06-25 2026-12-31 pending
Rick Rule Fed Funds Rate The US political class will capitulate on interest rates and return to quantitative easing by end of 2026
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[3:08] my suspicion is towards the end of this year, you will see them capitulate uh and both force interest rates down to the extent that they can and uh monetize uh the debt and deficits including the debt uh associated with the recent Iran conflict through quantitative easing.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-06-25 2026-12-31 pending
Rick Rule US Dollar The US Dollar will lose 75% of its purchasing power over the next decade
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[12:53] In the decade of the 70s, according to the office of management and budget, the US dollar lost 75% of its purchasing power over 10 years, which is what I believe happens over the next 10 years.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-06-25 2036-06-25 pending
Rick Rule Copper There will be at least $50 billion (and likely $70-80 billion) in new copper streaming transactions over the next 10 years
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[21:50] I think minimally there will be $50 billion in new transactions in the next 10 years. Minimally. Uh, and by the way... the nominal number will be much higher 70 or 80 billion.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-06-25 2036-06-25 pending
Rick Rule Gold Miners Gold miner capital discipline will shift toward increasing investment and M&A within the next two to three years
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[38:42] I think that changes in two or three years. Uh I think you have a market right now where the owners of the companies, the shareholders, particularly institutional shareholders are insisting on a very rigid fiscal discipline. uh I think that changes because I think the concern over the next two years will be the ability of companies to maintain or or increase their production

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Kitco NEWS 2026-06-25 2029-06-25 pending
Rick Rule Gold Miners Acquisition premiums paid for gold exploration discoveries will be surprisingly high over the next five years
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[41:45] I think over the next five years the prices that are going to be paid for those discoveries uh are going to be surprisingly stiff.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-06-25 2031-06-25 pending
Rick Rule Silver Silver will eventually take over market leadership from gold in the current precious metals bull market
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[36:01] I think uh a characteristic of the upcoming bull market in precious metals uh will be eventually a leadership transition from gold to silver.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-06-25 2030-06-25 pending
Rick Rule Copper Copper supplies will fall over the next five years due to decades of underinvestment
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[13:13] There is zero doubt that we're going to have lower supplies. We made this argument uh Adam, you and I uh at the end of 2025 around oil... There is zero doubt that copper supplies will fall over five years. You needed to work 15 years ago to increase supply now.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-21 2031-06-21 pending
Rick Rule Copper Copper demand will exceed available supply at current market prices over the next decade
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[8:31] the amount of copper demand that is going to be expressed in the market will not be able to be satisfied at a price that the market is willing to pay. It just isn't possible.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-21 2036-06-21 pending
Rick Rule Uranium Uranium will become the primary fuel powering AI data centers over the next five to ten years
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[43:03] The probability uh that uranium uh is the fuel uh of the AI business is 100%.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-21 2036-06-21 pending
Rick Rule Gold Gold and gold-related securities' market share will revert to its four-decade mean of 2% (from 0.5%) over the next 10 years
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[33:52] I believe that we will over the next 10 years experience at least a reversion to mean.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-12 2036-06-12 pending
Rick Rule Oil Oil prices at current elevated levels are likely to persist through 2029-2030 due to chronic underinvestment in sustaining capital
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[43:23] the oil industry on a global basis was underinvesting in sustaining capital to the tune of a billion dollars a day and that would lead to higher prices by 2029, 2030. Uh, they're underinvesting by more than a billion dollars a day... the prices that we're paying today uh are prices that are likely to be with us in 2029 or 2030.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-12 2029-12-31 pending
Rick Rule Inflation Rate US and Canadian debt and deficits will increase over time, leading to artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing as the primary funding mechanisms
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[35:22] If you believe, as I believe, that the debt and deficits that we face in the United States and Canada will increase rather than decrease over time. The funding mechanism, the only funding mechanism that seems to me to be available is artificially low interest rates to lower the interest component on the debt and quantitative easing, which is to say spending.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-12 2036-06-12 pending
Rick Rule Gold Gold will move sideways to down in the near term due to US dollar strength and rising interest rates
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[6:22] the increase in US interest rates and the so-called flight to quality around the world is driving the US dollar higher and likely driving gold either sideways to down.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-05-05 2026-08-05 pending
Rick Rule Uranium Higher uranium prices driven by renewed political favor of nuclear energy will materialize within 2-4 years
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[32:59] the circumstance I'm talking about which is uh the renewed political favor of uranium translating into higher uranium prices is a two or three or four yearlong project.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-05-05 2030-05-05 pending
Rick Rule Equity Markets Equity markets are currently overvalued and pricing in too optimistic a scenario given the environment of higher real interest rates and higher inflation ahead
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[36:06] I suspect that we uh ran out of that epoch in 2022 with higher real interest rates and I think that we'll continue to have higher real interest rates over time because I think we're going to have uh higher levels uh of inflation. Uh if I'm right uh then equity markets are pricing in too rosy a scenario probably as a consequence of 40 years of benign economic times.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-05-05 2028-05-05 pending
Rick Rule Kevin Warsh Fed Incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will not be as hawkish in practice as his public statements have suggested, due to political pressures
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[37:53] It would be difficult for me to believe that uh political forces allow him to be as hawkish uh as his statements have suggested that he would be.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-05-05 2028-05-05 pending
Rick Rule Energy Sector Gulf energy infrastructure destruction will take as much as 5 years to fix
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[5:28] the destruction of productive capacity in the Gulf both in terms of the Qatari liqufied natural gas infrastructure and the Iranian infrastructure on Car Island uh will take as much as 5 years to fix.

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Palisade Radio 2026-04-17 2031-04-17 pending
Rick Rule Copper It will take 15 to 20 years to meaningfully increase copper supply from new exploration efforts started today.
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[20:50] If we started looking for copper today, in my experience, as an example, grassroots exploration on a district scale takes a decade to pay off. We're talking about a circumstance where we meaningfully increase supply from frontier areas 15 or 20 years from where we push the start button.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-04-15 2041-04-15 pending
Rick Rule Copper More copper will need to be mined over the next 30 years than has been mined in all recorded history.
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[18:48] I think that we're going to have to mine more copper over the next 30 years, not 15, 30 years than we've mined in all recorded history.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-04-15 2056-04-15 pending
Rick Rule Copper Copper production will continue falling at 1-1.5% per year while demand increases 2.5-3% per year, widening the supply-demand gap.
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[22:45] At the same time that demand is increasing at 2 and a half or 3% compounded a year, production is falling up between one and one and a half% a year. So the gap gets fatter and fatter and fatter.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-04-15 2034-04-15 pending
Rick Rule Copper Copper prices will reach $12-15 per pound when rationing by price occurs.
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[31:03] When we ration by price, I say when, not if, society will find a way to save itself. Money is made by when the whole herd gets attracted to copper at 12 or $15.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-04-15 2031-04-15 pending
Rick Rule Oil Oil prices at current levels will likely be present in 2029 due to deferred sustaining capital
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[4:27] looking further out for reasons that you and I discussed as much as a year ago, namely the deferral of a billion dollars a day in sustaining capital, the prices that you see today will likely be present in 2029

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The David Lin Report 2026-04-13 2029-12-31 pending
Rick Rule Uranium Uranium will be the greatest beneficiary of the Gulf conflict and this will play out in the market over the next couple of years
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[27:03] Uranium is actually the greatest beneficiary I think over time of the Gulf conflict... the clearest of all beneficiaries of the Gulf conflict is uranium and that will play out in the market over the next couple of years.

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The David Lin Report 2026-04-13 2028-04-13 pending
Rick Rule Copper The world will consume more copper in the next 15 years than in the history of humankind due to data center demand
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[32:54] Robert was telling me that with the projected demand for data centers that we will consume more copper in the next 15 years than we've consumed in the history of humankind.

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The David Lin Report 2026-04-13 2041-04-13 pending
Rick Rule Credit Markets A 2008-style credit contraction is very likely due to high yield ETF risks
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[0:06] My biggest fear is with the proliferation of high yield ETFs, junk bond ETFs, the potential for a 2008 style credit contraction is very, very real.

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Wealthion 2026-04-08 2027-04-08 pending
Rick Rule US Dollar The US dollar will lose 75% of its purchasing power over the next 9-10 years
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[34:34] my underlying thesis, and we've shared this on your show numerous times, is that over the next nine or 10 years, the US dollar loses 75% of its purchasing power, while gold likely maintains its purchasing power.

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Wealthion 2026-04-08 2036-04-08 pending
Rick Rule Gold Gold will maintain its purchasing power over the next 9-10 years
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[34:34] my underlying thesis, and we've shared this on your show numerous times, is that over the next nine or 10 years, the US dollar loses 75% of its purchasing power, while gold likely maintains its purchasing power.

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Wealthion 2026-04-08 2036-04-08 pending
Rick Rule US Economy M&A activity will be a major theme in 2027 and has much further to run
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[6:53] M&A is going to be a big big theme next year. People say it's heated up, but it has nowhere near run its course.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-10 2027-12-31 pending
Rick Rule Gold Miners Big royalty and streaming companies will do more transactions in the next seven years than they have in the last 40 years
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[7:37] They will, when I say they, I mean the big royalty and streaming companies will do more by way of transactions in the next seven years than they have in the last 40.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-10 2033-03-10 pending
Rick Rule Gold Miners Mining exploration companies will see particularly exciting times in two years with discoveries being bought for eye-popping multiples
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[3:32] I actually believe that and there is now sufficient capital to follow up on good drill holes on good work. We're coming into a very very very exciting period throughout the value chain and mining. But I think two years from now we're coming into a particularly exciting period in the exploration side because there's been such a der of discoveries leading up to now. There's good results coming now and when a good deposit gets found, it will be bought for eyepopping multiples.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-10 2028-03-10 pending
Rick Rule Oil Oil prices will reach $85-90 per barrel
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[23:38] I think the oil price is going to 85 or 90.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-01-25 2029-01-25

The prediction claimed oil prices would reach $85-90 per barrel, and the period high of $119.48 on 2026-03-09 exceeded the upper target of $90, meeting the specific claim made.

Rick Rule Exxon Exxon will be worth two to three times its current value in five years
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[24:00] I'm buying uh what I think is a company five years ago, five years from now, that will be worth two to three times what it's worth today

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Thoughtful Money 2026-01-25 2031-01-25 pending
Rick Rule Gold Gold will not move with the rapidity it moved in 2025
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[6:06] I don't think that either metal is going to move with the rapidity that they moved in 2025.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-01-20 2026-12-31 pending
Rick Rule Gold Gold will experience drawdowns of at least 30% during this bull market
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[17:10] I guarantee you and I guarantee very little that in this bull market the gold price will from time to time fall back by at least 30%.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-01-20 2028-01-20 pending
Rick Rule Inflation Rate The US will have a dishonest default by inflating away the net present value of obligations
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[10:59] I think we have a dishonest default, which is to say that we honor the nominal value of our obligations while we inflate away the net present value of our obligations.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-01-20 2036-01-20 pending
Rick Rule Gold The gold market will fall by 30% or more at least twice in the next 10 years
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[13:06] I will guarantee you, David, and I don't guarantee much, that the gold market in the next 10 years will fall by 30% or more at least twice.

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The David Lin Report 2025-12-11 2034-12-11 pending
Rick Rule Gold The nominal price of gold will increase for 10 years
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[9:54] I believe uh for reasons that you and I have discussed uh at infinitum perhaps even adnauseium uh that the purchasing power of the dollar declines for 10 years which means that the nominal price of gold increases for 10 years.

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The David Lin Report 2025-12-11 2034-12-11 pending
Rick Rule Oil Peak oil demand will not occur within the next several decades
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[21:10] I would suggest to you David that peak oil demand doesn't occur in my lifetime and probably not in yours.

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The David Lin Report 2025-12-11 2050-12-11 pending
Rick Rule US Dollar The US dollar purchasing power will decline by 75% over the next 10 years
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[0:00] They pay you 4.5% in a currency which I believe is deteriorating in terms of purchasing power at 7.5% a year. You're losing 3% a year for 10 years. 3% compounded which means over 10 years gold likely goes in nominal terms much higher or rather gold holds its real value while the purchasing power of the dollar declines by 75%.

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The David Lin Report 2025-07-16 2035-07-16 pending