Kitco News, Released on 6/25/26

Rick Rule says gold’s drop below $4,000 rhymes with 1975, when the metal crashed 50% and then rose 8x, and the investors who panic-sold at the bottom missed the entire move. So is this gold selloff the buying opportunity of the decade, or a warning that more pain is coming? Legendary resource investor Rick Rule, founder of Rule Investment Media, joins Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron to break down the gold selloff after the price cracked $4,000 for the first time since November and Bank of America pulled its $6,000 gold target. Rule explains why he’s pessimistic on gold in the very near term yet still buying, why he expects the political class to cave on interest rates and return to quantitative easing before year-end, and why he believes the US dollar could lose 75% of its purchasing power this decade, just as it did in the 1970s. The conversation goes deep on the mining side too: why gold miners are being priced as if gold were only $3,354 an ounce, a 19% discount to spot, why Rule says the safest, best risk-adjusted way to own gold isn’t a miner at all but the royalty and streaming companies, the $250 billion copper-streaming wave he sees coming, the one producer he’d own (Agnico Eagle), what he sold and what he’s buying now, the real silver setup beyond the solar headlines, the coming mining takeover wave, where in the world he will and won’t own a mine, and why copper could run to $10-12.

00:00 Gold Breaks $4,000
01:17 Rates vs Gold
03:55 The 1975 Lesson
08:46 What Breaks First
14:22 The Crash, Then QE
18:31 The Miner Discount
19:52 Royalty & Streaming
27:05 Rick’s Portfolio
28:47 The Boca Symposium
32:03 The Silver Setup
39:40 The Takeover Wave
44:50 Where to Own a Mine
48:18 Copper’s Warning
50:16 Takeaways

Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd., began his career in the securities business in 1974. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest products and agriculture. His company has built a national reputation on taking advantage of global opportunities in the oil and gas, mining, alternative energy, agriculture, forestry and water industries. He is also the co-founder of Battle Bank and founder of Rule Investment Media.

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