Silver’s 2025 breakout marked one of the metal’s most decisive shifts in more than a decade. As the price pushed through longstanding resistance, investors, miners and policymakers reassessed its role in global markets, allowing silver to reassert itself as not only an industrial metal, but also a staple financial asset. Looking back at silver’s record-breaking year, these are our most popular news stories of 2025. 1. Retail Investors Look to Trigger Silver Squeeze 2.0 Publish date: March 31, 2025 Silver received mainstream attention in March, with renewed calls for what supporters dubbed “Silver Squeeze 2.0,” reviving a theme that first gained prominence during the meme stock era of 2021. Online chatter intensified ahead of March 31, with advocates urging coordinated purchases of physical silver to challenge what they saw as entrenched institutional control over the metal’s pricing. Efforts traced back to a March 22 post on X by user @TheSqueakyMouse,…
