Introducing Dana Samuelson, a Trusted Expert in Gold and Silver

Originally published at: https://peakprosperity.com/introducing-dana-samuelson-a-trusted-expert-in-gold-and-silver/

Have you been watching gold and silver rise in price, and possibly been wondering if your exposure to them should increase? If so, perhaps you wondered how to go about it? For me, the answer always begins with people who are of extremely high integrity and whom I can trust.

In this podcast, I interview Dana Samuelson, founder and president of American Gold Exchange (operating since 1998), a true veteran precious metals dealer with over 45 years of experience. He’s someone I really trust in this space, and we’ve known each other for a decade or more.

Dana trained with the giants back in the day, including Jim Blanchard, who was instrumental in getting gold legalized again for US citizens to own.

He is also an expert numismatic coin appraiser and is a member of the Professional Numismatists Guild, which is the leading organization of rare coin dealers in the country. He’s also sat on their board and was President of the organization when the issue of Chinese counterfeit coins first reared its head.

In other words, he’s been there and done that. In times like these, where gold and silver are powering to new highs, having that perspective is vitally important.

In his view, the landscape is changing powerfully. The investment thesis for gold has shifted from denigrating ‘goldbugs’ to Morgan Stanley recommending a 60/20/20 portfolio where that last “20” is gold.

Further, central banks are strong buyers, international pricing now includes China’s heavy presence, and the de-dollarization trend among the BIRCS cannot be ignored.

Silver, too, has a powerful story, but it’s different from gold. Silver, as I’ve long been banging on the table about, is in a structural shortfall of supply relative to demand.


If you wish to explore buying physical gold and silver, we heartily recommend Dana’s company and services at American Gold Exchange. We’re an affiliate partner of AGE because we know and trust Dana to provide excellent service, competitive prices, and deep knowledge.


Silver is absolutely essential for industrial purposes and is used extensively in solar panel manufacturing as well as other electronics.

Could 2025 be the year that industrial demand alone outstrips mine output? It seems entirely possible, leaving less for all other purposes, including jewelry and investment.

But to really make things interesting, Dana explains how the LBMA “broke” in October, and with the recent CME data center “outage” we are increasingly confident that the paper-based shenanigans of the past decades are winding down.

Further, Dana is convinced (as am I) that the Fed is in a pinch. Its choices now include either letting the debt markets implode or printing a lot more money (a.k.a. “QE”). Clearly, the betting man’s wager is on QE.

To buy or sell physical gold and/or silver from American Gold Exchange, just follow this link https://amergold.com/peakprosperity or call 1-800-613-9323 and tell them you heard about them from Chris.


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Japan could liquidate part of its US treasury holdings which are slightly over 1 Trillion USD to catch some breathing space, which would be no bueno for the FED I guess.

I stumbled across this image on zerohedge today:

I like these kind of images which can give a new perspective on how rare AU really is… Perspective being everything to me.

I liked the little box stating 384.5k tonnes being estimate total AU reserves on earth(above+below ground), estimating its total value in USD @ 4200$/troy ounce pricing at $46.7 trillion.

Running the match backwards, considering the $38 Trillion national debt, at 3,391$/ounce pricing it would have taken all the world’s gold (again, above and below ground) to extinguish that debt!!!

Simply unbelievable!!!

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Also interesting (to me) to note that silver survived a full day of Mr. Slammy and still ended up green.

That’s a pretty big deal…

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Mr.Slammy has to invent a new trick…!!! Very curious how this year will end!

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What does it look like when the people of a country develop complete faith in their monetary leadership? By which I mean faith that that they will do the worst things possible?

Kind of like this:

Here’s but merely the most recent example:

It’s left unclear how printing more money and spending it via ‘stimulus’ is going to “address rising prices.”

But that’s what makes all this so much fun…pointing out the absurdities.

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Yeah, I was expecting Mr. Slammy to either work or break completely by mid-day Monday. This is more of a “giant sumo wrestler meets the Sta-Puff marshmallow man” slug-fest and so far it’s a near-draw. Eh, that’s what I get for expecting matters to cleanly resolve; they seldom do. Still… reality seems to be slightly winning in that prices are drifting upward a tad.

Good to hear the discussion with someone deep in the metals business. It makes it easier to stay the course, average in, and sleep soundly at night.

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I got an ounce of silver, ran to the kitchen and got a cube of ice. You should try it! it’s so cool to cut ice with silver!
The silver very quickly gets icy cold and the cutting slows down, but it’s still a fun trick.

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Re: solar panels, should we be expecting them to start rapidly increasing in price because of the silver price (and/or expectations of where that’s probably headed)? Or will it be analogous to what Chris said about cell phones?

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I’ll repost this here from another thread. Silver is a tiny, though critical, component of panel manufacturing. Ag could 5X price and only affect panel cost a few bucks, apparently.
https://tribe.peakprosperity.com/t/gold-top-3-5-0-0-4300-and-silver-top-4-0-58-today-g4200-s58/45660/468?u=thatchmo

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Industrial use (other) has a large compnent of metallurgical silver. The use in xray film has gone way down. Not sure if they have that under industrial or photography.


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Two Swedes?

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China loves to build their domestic solar parks… so I guess domestic/international gap widens.

.. Straight to somewhere in ‘The City of London’ no doubt.

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Even more fun with dry ice. If you place a quarter on dry ice it will melt a slot then the quarter will chatter back and forth in that slot.

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LOL.

I’m still waiting for the WSJ to show people excitedly selling their NVDA shares because they’ve gone up so much in price!!

This is the not-so-subtle propaganda informing us all that wise people sell their gold, and have fun doing it, and it’s exciting!!

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The not-so-subtle “sell NOW” nudge notwithstanding, it was cool looking at their operation. My local dealer, well, slightly different style shall we say… :laughing:

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Watch the short video below. It basically summarizes everything on silver and paper market we come to understand from Chris and other experts.

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