Silver Is Not Real Money
Is silver real money? I don’t think so. But I know that my proclamation will likely draw vociferous contradictions from others who consider themselves “hard-money advocates”. That’s okay. Let’s...
View ArticleHi Yo Silver! sort of…
In January, 1980 silver peaked at close to $50.00 per ounce and gold hit its high point of approximately $850.00 per ounce. Thirty-one years later, in 2011, both metals again reached lofty levels. For...
View ArticleGold-Silver Ratio: Debunking The Myth
A 16-to-1 gold to silver ratio has been the Holy Grail of some silver investors since the mid-sixties. Unfortunately, fifty years later, it is a quest that continues unabated without success. In fact,...
View Article‘Implosive’ Silver Vulnerable To Big Price Drop
Admittedly, it must sound encouraging, and even exciting, to hear proclamations that a “silver” lining is now apparent in the metals complex. Or that a silver “blast-off (is) about to happen”....
View ArticleNo Silver Lining Here
As bad as the prognosticators can be with their predictions for the price of gold, the situation for silver is even worse. Some very recent headlines trumpeted the following proclamations: “Silver...
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Gold Nuggets And Silver Bullets
It is very difficult to let go of someone – or something – when we have invested so much time and energy in it. It is even harder when we have invested so much of ourselves in it; when the outcome is...
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Silver Fails Miserably To Meet Expectations
No matter how harsh it sounds, it is true. Unfortunately, too many people don’t want to hear it and refuse to listen. Acknowledgement of the facts doesn’t seem to deter its supporters. We are told that...
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Silver’s Next Big Move
Eight years ago this month, silver started its “next big move”. And that move continues today. It is awesome to behold. See the chart (ten-year history of silver prices) below… After an intraday...
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Prospecting For Silver During Recessions
I am continually amazed at how every turn in the numbers and the economy seems to present new information that is bullish for gold and silver. The train of logic becomes downright laughable at times....
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Silver Is Cheap – And Getting Cheaper
Silver is definitely cheap. By almost any standard of measurement, the price of silver is cheap. It is cheap relative to gold, it is cheap compared to its recent peak in 2011, and it is cheap...
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$100 Silver Has Come And Gone
In January 1980, the price of silver peaked at just under $50.00 per ounce. From its low in October 1971 at $1.27, silver had risen thirty-nine fold in little more than eight years. There was talk...
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Silver Loses Its Mettle
Actually, it is silver investors who might be losing their mettle. Coping well in the face of a fourteen percent decline in the vaunted white metal must be very difficult. The size of that decline...
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Silver Loses Its Mettle – Part 2 (Technicals)
Last week I talked about unrealistic expectations for the price of silver (see Silver Loses Its Mettle). My comments were centered on two specific factors: 1) silver’s primary role as an industrial...
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Gold-Silver Ratio Tops 100; Silver Headed For Sub-$10
It doesn’t seem to matter what the ratio of gold to silver is, or how high it goes. Those who prefer silver always seem to think it’s going to reverse “soon”. It might; maybe significantly so, too. But...
View ArticleSilver Is Trapped Below $30
Below is a chart (source) showing a 10-year history of silver prices. The prices are adjusted for inflation… As you can see, the price of silver today is well below its peak price in 2011. At $24 per...
View ArticleWaiting On Silver
Expectations still abound for the long-awaited, vertical leap in silver prices. We are told it is inevitable; and that it is supported by solid fundamentals. Those fundamentals include supply...
View ArticlePrice Of Silver – 100 Years In The Making
Sometimes fantasy becomes reality. At other times, a dose of reality will temper fantasies of outsized and unjustified proportion. Some silver investors and analysts could use a dose of reality. Below...
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