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Silver prices increased 150% in 2025
Gold rose by "just" 65% last year
Silver "dual use," complicates supply
Often dismissed as "the poor man's gold", silver outshone its more famous roommate in 2025, staging its biggest rally in modern trading history and smashing through 45βyear highs.
Those previous highs - around US$50 an ounce - were set in the early 1980s when the nowβinfamous billi
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