As Hansen puts it bluntly: “Gold is no longer a hedge. It is a vote of no confidence in the existing monetary order.”
A Broad Commodity Breakout
This is not a one-metal story. Uranium has surged to its highest level since mid-2024. Copper, Nickel, Zinc, Aluminium, Platinum, Palladium and Tin have all broken to multi-year, decade-high or all-time record highs – marking the broadest synchronised Commodity breakout since the post-crisis renaissance of 2009 and in several cases, a stronger one.
Across 47 listed Commodities, 38 are positive year-to-date, with more than two dozen now within striking distance of fresh all-time highs.
Since early 2025, The Gold & Silver Club has warned that relentless fiscal expansion, weaponized trade policy and tightening supply would collide – forcing a violent repricing of physical assets. That forecast is no longer theoretical. It is visible, measurable and accelerating.
Bank of America’s assertion that “all Commodity charts will look like Gold” is already materializing. The visual resemblance across the complex is becoming unmistakable.
Hansen frames the moment clearly:
“Liquidity is rising, purchasing power is eroding and scarcity is being repriced in real time. Under these conditions, Gold at $5,000 and Silver at $100 in Q1 2026 are not stretch targets – they are checkpoints on a longer road.”
The Cost of Waiting
The lesson of 2025 was that the trend was undeniable. The lesson of 2026 may be that it becomes unstoppable.
Traders waiting for comfort may discover that comfort only arrives when the opportunity is gone. As Hansen concludes: “Markets reward accumulation, not hesitation. Being structurally underweight Metals may prove to be the most expensive strategic error of the next decade.”
The Year of Hard Assets is no longer a thesis. It is the operating environment. Those still on the sidelines risk watching one of the greatest generational wealth transfers of our lifetime unfold without them.