Why You Should Buy Silver

The money we have in our wallets, just isn't money. At least it hasn't been since we moved away from the gold/silver standard when it was currency. Anyone who thinks silver will tank down to near nothing is a near sighted fool. The bottom is likely around $18. And it's already gone down that far a couple of times.




even though spot is under $20, the real street price is $25 depending on what type of silver coins u r buying. great video! i hope we get $10 silver again. i like the point made at the end of the video about traditional daily wage in silver.
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The Gold/Silver Price Ratio is Out of Whack — What’s Next?

Thursday April 24, 2014, 4:15am PDT
By Charlotte McLeod - Exclusive to Silver Investing News
Last month, Silver Investing News (SIN) received an enthusiastic response to the question, “do you think silver is headed for a supply shortage?” Of over 1,000 participants, 81 percent said they believe a silver shortfall is in the works, reinforcing the idea that while silver prices are down, they’re likely not out.
Despite that overwhelmingly affirmative response, the article raised a number of good questions amongst readers. To address some of them, SIN got back in touch with Andrew Chanin, co-founder of the PureFunds ISE Junior Silver ETF (ARCA:SILJ), whose comments sparked the original article.
To start off with, Chanin addressed the nature of the shortage — in other words, whether we’re looking at a silver supply shortage in that silver in the ground is actually running low, or in the sense that at current prices miners simply aren’t able to produce enough of it. The simple answer is that though the amount of high-grade deposits around the world is falling, at the moment the latter issue is the bigger concern; however, Chanin gave a much more detailed response, explaining why that’s the case.
For one thing, he said, “about two-thirds of all mined annual silver comes as a by-product, and much of that is from base-metals mining.” That’s a problem because many people are calling for a slowdown in emerging markets, which could keep prices for base metals depressed. If that happens, he said, “it might actually make sense to put such mines on hold temporarily.” Ultimately, that means “a significant area of silver supply … could get taken offline.”
Another factor, Chanin noted, is that low silver prices are hurting producing companies’ exploration efforts. Sure, he said, silver priced at $16 per ounce, or even $10 an ounce is possible, but “it would be extremely, extremely difficult for silver-mining companies to produce silver at those levels, [and] difficult, if not impossible, for them to do it profitably.”
read more @ http://www.metal.com/newscontent/59887_the-goldsilver-price-ratio-is-out-of-whack-%E2%80%94-what%E2%80%99s-next








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

Silver $50: Three Years After the "Shortage"

April 2011 saw silver prices double from 6 months before. Why, and what happened next...?

 

SILVER PRICES hit $50 three years ago this week, writes Miguel Perez-Santalla at BullionVault.

 

It was on April 25, 2011 that silver traded $49.80 per ounce in the New York spot market. That means silver traded $50 somewhere. There was a lot of business going on at that time, but after holding above $49 for the rest of that week, silver prices began to retreat. Fast.

 

One of the factors that many traders were looking at was the Gold/Silver Ratio. Some believed that silver was much undervalued versus gold, and would recover its historical price parity of about 16 ounces of silver per ounce of gold.

 

So even though silver hadn't been so expensive in terms of gold for 28 years, and even though Dollar prices had doubled inside 6 months, some traders felt the move wouldn't be complete unless silver traded above the $50 price level it had hit in 1980.

 

The silver market environment of 2011's run to $50 per ounce was, however, very different to that of 1980. The principal driver back then was the continued inflation in consumer prices, plus the attempt by Nelson Bunker Hunt and his partners to corner the silver market – an attempt eventually brought to an end by efforts of the Federal Reserve Bank and certain members of the Commodities Exchange.

 

Thirty years later the global economy again faced serious concerns. Not only was the US economy still reeling from the mortgage crisis and 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse. Now the Eurozone faced break-up as Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Spain all reported serious problems with their finances.

 

In the United States confidence in the economy continued at record lows. The news out of Europe only heightened concerns of another financial crisis. Then the Fed announced another round of Quantitative Easing beginning in November 2010. Silver coin sales by the US Mint hit a monthly record, surpassed only by early 2011's surge in private-investor demand. Because this new QE meant printing more Dollars (or rather, their "electronic equivalent" as then Fed chair Ben Bernanke had said). So in the minds of many investors the Dollar was under the gun. Seeking safe-haven assets, likely to hold or grow their real value during a prolonged inflation, became of paramount importance.

read more @ http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/silver-2011-042320145

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

Doug Casey: Bond Bubble Blowing Up, Gold Silver More Important to Own than 1971 or 2001

Doug Casey of CaseyResearch.com warns, "Were going into what I call 'The Greater Depression.' It's going to be much more serious than what happened in the 1930's. . . . A depression is a period of time when most people's standard of living drops significantly." Casey explains, "There is a gigantic amount of debt in the U.S. at all levels—governmental, corporate and individual. Debt is a sign you have been living above your means. It's a debt bubble, and this is a major reason the government wants interest rates low. When interest rates rise, it makes it harder for people in debt to service that debt. They are simply delaying the inevitable at this point, but it is inevitable what is going to happen, and we are going to have a fantastic depression." On physical gold and silver, Casey says, "Gold is more important to own and perhaps a better bargain now than in 1971 or 2001, and the same is true of silver."






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

Silver Market, Silver Price Manipulation and the Coming Global Monetary Reset

Since there is a lot of talk about a potential gold re evaluation following an international monetary reset, I wanted to interview David Morgan, renowned silver market analyst, in order to have his views on a couple of topics, including silver evolution, silver manipulation, and the potential price of silver after a financial reset. Read his answers below:

Fabrice Drouin Ristori : Mr. Morgan, thank you for this interview. You’ve specialized in analyzing the silver price for a long time, and understanding how and why the price of silver evolves with such volatility takes time and research. Let’s start with the basics : Could you give us an idea of the size of the annual worldwide production of physical silver ?
David Morgan : Yes, the total supply is roughly one billion ounces annually. Approximately 800 million ounces mined, and 200 million ounces from recycling.
FDR : A lot of silver paper contracts are exchanged everyday on different markets. According to your knowledge, how many ounces of silver are exchanged everyday on a worldwide basis (paper + physical) and, if you agree with this concept, how many silver paper claims exist for each ounce of physical silver in existence ?

read more @ http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/04/silver-market-manipulation



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

Gold scarce, India's silver jewellery exports double

 Shortage of gold as a raw material and the consequent decline in gold jewellery exports has opened up new avenues of growth for silver jewellery.

MUMBAI (Mineweb) - 
A shortage of gold as a raw material and the consequent decline in gold jewellery exports appears to have opened up new avenues of growth for silver jewellery in India.
India's silver jewellery exports rose 45.33% to $84.1 million in February 2014, and jumped 89% in the 11-month period to $1.35 billion, according to data from the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council.

Council data also showed that silver jewellery exports rose 109% between April 2013 and February 2014, to $1.3 billion (Rs 81.4 billion) from $642 million (Rs 38.85 billion) in the same period of the previous financial year.
Pankaj Parekh, vice chairman of the Council said it was not just silver jewellery that shone in the overseas market, but rather exports of silver utensils, artifacts and other silver articles too continued with their upward trend to the US, parts of Europe and Japan.
read more @ http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-gold-news?oid=237443&sn=Detail









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

What’s Going On With Silver?

According to many analysts surveyed at the beginning of 2014, this year was not supposed to be a good one for silver. In fact, in January we reported that many silver forecasts saw the silver price averaging around $21 per ounce. We are now in a mindset where any activity above $20 per ounce is greeted with positivity and chatter about a price recovery.

Is this what we have to look forward to? Pop-ups above $20? We take a look at what’s been going on this year and a couple of the issues affecting the price of silver.
Silver 2014 vs Silver 2013

2014 isn’t looking quite as bad as last year for silver, when the price fell by nearly 40%, compared to the price of gold which only fell by around 3%. Last year it seemed silver was on a winning streak and close to touching new highs. In March it rose to $32/oz, however it was unable to maintain this momentum as both gold and silver were taken out in the April.
read more @ http://www.investing.com/analysis/what%E2%80%99s-going-on-with-silver-209127




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

Silver Manipulation Explained by Mike Maloney

Silver and Gold prices are being suppressed by a cabal of banks in order to uphold the charade of a strong U.S. dollar. This manipulation is unsustainable and is coming to an end. Prepare for a scramble to own physical gold & silver as the wheels come off this gross deception. The free market always wins. Please take the time to research this information for yourself. Huge thanks to GATA for their outstanding efforts in making this information public





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

Taking a shine to silver - a silver shortage is upon us

Experts agree a silver shortage is upon us as its safe haven status and industrial uses gain appeal

Precious metals have long been viewed as safe haven assets, providing balance to investment portfolios. Obviously, gold is already established as a common retail investment but silver is now in focus. With its many industrial uses, silver can outperform when economies return to growth as well as providing essential hedging in downturns.

When confidence in central bank-issued fiat money (money that derives its value from the state/government) begins to fade, investors look for secure stores of wealth. They run to gold and also to silver; especially in the US.

Historically, the ratio between the gold and silver price has been about 12:1. This means it took 12 ounces of silver to buy one ounce of gold. The ratio is now closer to 60:1, which defies the relationship that the two metals have had over the last 100 years and suggests that silver could be massively undervalued.


read more @ http://www.fundweb.co.uk/fund-strategy/alternatives/taking-a-shine-to-silver/2007566.article

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 -- We Have a Shortage of Gold

 
Eric Sprott's analysis shows a "flat supply" and at least a "2,500 ton net increase in gold demand" since 2000. He manages nearly $10 billion at Sprott Asset Management. "Where's all the gold coming from?" asks Sprott. He says Western central banks ". . . keep supplying this market with product in order to keep the price down so nobody knows how vulnerable the situation is." Sprott boldly proclaims, "We have a shortage of gold." Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Eric Sprott.






 Eric Sprott's analysis shows a "flat supply" and at least a "2,500 ton net increase in gold demand" since 2000. He manages nearly $10 billion at Sprott Asset Management. "Where's all the gold coming from?" asks Sprott. He says Western central banks ". . . keep supplying this market with product in order to keep the price down so nobody knows how vulnerable the situation is." Sprott boldly proclaims, "We have a shortage of gold." Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Eric Sprott.


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

The Silver Price & CFTC | David Morgan & James Turk

David Morgan and James Turk discuss gold and silver prices and the gold/silver ratio. Video recorded on November 6, 2010 , Edelmetallmesse in Munich, Germany.


In general our advice is to accumulate silver and gold regardless the increase in price in terms of paper currency. Eventually you will need to spend parts of your gold and silver. Either because you need some paper currency to buy for day-to-day things or because silver and gold once again circulate as money, as they should. In the latter case you will spend silver and gold just as you now spend your paper currency.
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

Out of Control Chaos Coming with Shortages of Gold, Silver, Food, Gasoline and More - Jim Willie

Jim Willie CB Proprietor, GoldenJackass.com Editor, Hat Trick Letter The man behind the name Jim Willie has experience in three important fields of statistical practice in the 23 years following completion of a PhD in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He spent time since 2001 in a private consulting firm in Pittsburgh, PA. His work included pharmaceutical and medical claim estimation, stratified sampling for consumer packaged goods market share, training seminars in advanced regression models, and consulting toward various other projects within the firm. In August of 2003, he became a low-cost solution at his firm, and since then has focused exclusively on the US and world economies, financial markets, currencies, and the commodity fields. Gold and energy have been a prime focus. Jim spent five years at the corporate headquarters of Staples in suburban Boston in the last half of the 1990 decade. Work focused upon forecasting and sales analysis for their retail business, but also for the catalog and internet business. His retail floor labor scheduling program integrated several forecasts across the entire retail chain of over 1000 stores. Retail models, seasonality estimation, marketing effects, price elasticity analysis, all supported either the forecast process or profit margin enhancement. During his time at Staples, the company quadrupled in revenues and store count nationwide. At Digital Equipment Corporation in suburban Boston, Jim worked for nine years in a unique zero-profit center within the company, one totally dedicated to marketing research on Digital products and the computer industry. Large strategic studies and smaller product studies were completed in the hundreds by a staff of 12. Strategic studies incorporated orthogonal fractional factorial designs, for evaluating various product feature combinations and industry directions. Product studies helped to enhance design and development. All datasets were analyzed exhaustively for useful information on perceptions, preferences, drivers, trends, usage, and demographics. However, extreme errors of judgment by senior executives resulted in the rapid decline in the company, departure of the best and brightest leaders, severe reduction in its workforce, and eventual acquisition by Compaq, then later by Hewlett Packard, which now manages his defined benefit pension. Sadly, many younger people have not even heard of the second largest computer mfg firm behind IBM in the 1980 and 1990 decades. HP took a large portion of Digital’s customer base. Also at Digital, before the marketing research post, Jim worked for five years as a quality control consultant to the manufacturing organizations. He authored a DEC Engineering Specification which was integrated at all 28 mfg plants worldwide. It streamlined the stress testing of units from the assembly lines, with significant savings from reduced test time. Over a seven-year period, its implementation reduced mfg costs corporate-wide by between $250 and $300 million. Those were days of considerable fat in the US mfg arena, however. A few of his colleagues from Digital days remain trusted friends and analysts. About GoldenJackass.com The Golden Jackass website is designed to inform and instruct in the complex ways of gold, currencies, bonds, interest rates, stocks, commodities, futures, derivatives and the world economy, with no respect shown for inept bankers and economists, whose policies and practices contribute toward the slow motion degradation, if not destruction, of the financial world. The website provides an ongoing source of excellent articles written by other authors, who make significant contributions to the above mentioned topics, in addition to a collection of news briefs filled with critical data. A minimum of tools are also made available for monitoring charts of important series, such as the USDollar, gold, the CRB index, and the US$ money supply. For those who wish to pursue a deeper course, with monthly commentary and essays, highlighted by strategic forecasts, combined with potentially profitable mining and energy stock selections, subscription to the HAT TRICK LETTER is offered to members at the cost of a low recurring fee.
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