Ranting Andy on Physical Silver Shortage

Ranting Andy Explains Silver Ain't That Cheap or Available Either 01-09-12

Ranting Andy is back, relaxed and a little calmer after the new year. We got right down to business. Bob, a listener wanted to know why there's no apparent shortage of silver in the marketplace now. Andy explained that while the paper prices were certainly depressed, the current premium on Eric Sprott's Physical Silver ETF has hit a new historic high of over 30 percent. Sprott's ETF is unique in that holders are permitted to convert their shares into physical silver. This means that investors are willing to pay higher premiums than are charged by metals dealers in the physical market. And those physical premiums have been on the rise as well. So when it comes to price and supply of silver, there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye. And then of course, there's the fact that no publicly traded markets are functioning properly at the present time. They may have been mortally injured by governmental and large bank manipulation as well as an undermining of confidence by the MF Global collapse. No matter how you figure it, zero percent interest rates, off balance sheet gimmicks by the government and the large financial groups and collapsing asset values, there is no longer a means of determining objective values. The markets are now a ponzi scheme that are used to seperate unsuspecting marks from their cash. Please send your question to kl@kerrylutz.com or call us at 347-460-LUTZ.

MAKE SURE YOU GET PHYSICAL SILVER IN YOUR OWN POSSESSION. Don't Buy SLV, or Futures or Pooled Accounts or any other BS paper silver product .Remember anything on paper is worth the paper it is written on. Go Long Stay long the bull market have even started yet

Eric Sprott : Silver has to go up

Eric Sprott, Chairman of Sprott Asset Management, speaks at the Casey Research/Sprott Summit When Money Dies.Eric Sprott talks about supply and demand of Silver and how the upward pressures on silver price from demand growing much faster than supply are not being accurately reflected. A 900 million ounce silver supply simply cannot cope with a 380 million ounce increase in demand and maintain current prices. Eric also explains that investment sales of silver are 50 to 1 in volume compared to gold and that this means a decreasing gold/silver ratio. Eric Sprott : ".... I think the physical silver producers, the miners, need to be more active participants in the market," "When silver is produced for less than $15/oz and sold for $30/oz, theoretically the producer is making $15/oz. I believe it is irresponsible for companies to leave that money in the bank where it is vulnerable. It is too risky. Producers have to find something to invest in and the obvious choices are gold and silver. It seems very logical to me that silver producers should invest in silver as a monetary metal." Sprott explained.

MAKE SURE YOU GET PHYSICAL SILVER IN YOUR OWN POSSESSION. Don't Buy SLV, or Futures or Pooled Accounts or any other BS paper silver product .Remember anything on paper is worth the paper it is written on. Go Long Stay long the bull market have even started yet