silversliver

ok domo, i take your point. i buy silver from dealers in california (which is how i came across this thread) and none of them have any supply. ONe of them told me that was the reason. DYOR etc

real money has been SILVER for thousands of years - hence we have a currency called the 'pound' (weight of silver) and referred to as 'sterling' (92.5% purity) there's a growing band of people waking up to silver as an investment. I'm unashamedly bullish on silver for the following reasons: 1) demand has outstripped supply every year of the last 15 - and for at least 60 years on average. 2) most if not all government inventories are now depleted. 3) the list of industrial uses grows (including solar panels), now more than making up for the loss from photography. 4) silver is both a precious and a base metal, meaning it's an inflation hedge and necessary for industry. 5) in many industrial applications there is no alternative - eg mirrors. 6) although silver has gone up over the past few years, the rise has been so slow (relatively) over the past few decades because there was always more in government inventories as an artificial supply. now this has gone, the sky's the limit. I'm sorry i don't know how high silver could go - the recent increase in mining is producing a little more silver than previously, but still not ebough to meet demand. The market will also accept a price of silver many times its current price - eg if an industrial switch (or mirror etc) costs £2 to produce, with the silver accounting for 2p of that, if the price of silver times by 5 to 10p - noone would notice now paying £2.10 for the switch! As for how to invest, i'd be split between an etf and holding bullion - there's a lot of concern that the etfs couldn't actually meet their silver committments due to a new short position. like everyone i've said this to - do your own rsearch via google or anywhere else and the answer is inescapable. Good luck.

US people are now so worried about the banking system and also housing that they're putting their money into gold and silver. that's why nearly every SILVER BULLION dealer in the US and Canada has run out !! the demand is now outstripping supply by a huge factor - so much so that the entire government inventories of silver are now exhausted. if you don't believe me do your own research - & have a look at the increasing industrial demand. 'MoneyWeek' have a few good articles on silver. i garuantee you'll want to buy some when you've checked it out.

you're all missing the point - its SILVER that's going to rocket. look at the demand v supply over the past 3000, 60 or 15 years. do your own research, have a look at the silver thread and you'll be converted to SILVER - thats a promise! silver is rarer than gold and with no government inventories remaining, it'll soon cost more than gold.

for anyone thinking of buying gold - stop for a moment and do some research on SILVER - you'll never regret it. there's a growing band of people waking up to silver as an investment. I'm unashamedly bullish on silver for the following reasons: AT THE MOMENT MOST SILVERBULLION DEALERS IN THE US HAVE LIMITED SUPPLIES, as US house-holders are buying it by the truck load. 1) demand has outstripped supply every year of the last 15 - and for at least 60 years on average. 2) most if not all government inventories are now depleted. 3) the list of industrial uses grows (including solar panels), now more than making up for the loss from photography, and also starting to be used in hospital bandages and surgical instruments because it kills MRSA. 4) silver is both a precious and a base metal, meaning it's an inflation hedge and necessary for industry. 5) in many industrial applications there is no alternative - eg mirrors. 6) although silver has gone up over the past few years, the rise has been so slow (relatively) over the past few decades because there was always more in government inventories as an artificial supply. now this has gone, the sky's the limit. I'm sorry i don't know how high silver could go - the recent increase in mining is producing a little more silver than previously, but still not ebough to meet demand. The market will also accept a price of silver many times its current price - eg if an industrial switch (or mirror etc) costs £2 to produce, with the silver accounting for 2p of that, if the price of silver times by 5 to 10p - noone would notice now paying £2.10 for the switch! As for how to invest, i'd be split between an etf and holding bullion - there's a lot of concern that the etfs couldn't actually meet their silver committments due to a new short position. like everyone i've said this to - do your own rsearch via google or anywhere else and the answer is inescapable. Good luck.

for those who think the recent activity on silver is a pull-back or signal of a top - DREAM ON! silver is in a completely different situation to any other base OR precious metal. if you dont believe this, try sourcing silver eagles or maple leaves from anywhere in the US or Canada right now. when silver takes off (and it hasn't even started yet), we will see a re-rating of an order of magnitude. 1) demand has outstripped supply every year of the last 15 - and for at least 60 years on average. 2) most if not all government inventories are now depleted. 3) the list of industrial uses grows (including solar panels), now more than making up for the loss from photography. 4) silver is both a precious and a base metal, meaning it's an inflation hedge and necessary for industry. 5) in many industrial applications there is no alternative - eg mirrors. 6) although silver has gone up over the past few years, the rise has been so slow (relatively) over the past few decades because there was always more in government inventories as an artificial supply. now this has gone, the sky's the limit. I'm sorry i don't know how high silver could go - the recent increase in mining is producing a little more silver than previously, but still not enough to meet demand. The market will also accept a price of silver many times its current price - eg if an industrial switch (or mirror etc) costs £2 to produce, with the silver accounting for 2p of that, if the price of silver times by 5 to 10p - noone would notice now paying £2.10 for the switch! As for how to invest, i'd be split between an etf and holding bullion - there's a lot of concern that the etfs couldn't actually meet their silver committments due to a net short position. like everyone i've said this to - do your own rsearch via google or anywhere else and the answer is inescapable. Good luck.

yep, there's a lot of difficulties in both the equity and property markets - so i'm doing what lots and lots of US citizens are doing at the moment - BUYING SILVER. Some say gold AND silver is the answer, but i see all the advantages of gold in silver - as well as a zillion others. there's a growing band of people waking up to silver as an investment. I'm unashamedly bullish on silver for the following reasons: 1) demand has outstripped supply every year of the last 15 - and for at least 60 years on average. 2) most if not all government inventories are now depleted. 3) the list of industrial uses grows (including solar panels), now more than making up for the loss from photography, and in medical instruments and dressings because it kills MRSA. 4) silver is both a precious and a base metal, meaning it's an inflation hedge and necessary for industry. 5) in many industrial applications there is no alternative - eg mirrors. 6) although silver has gone up over the past few years, the rise has been so slow (relatively) over the past few decades because there was always more in government inventories as an artificial supply. now this has gone, the sky's the limit. The market will also accept a price of silver many times its current price - eg if an industrial switch (or mirror etc) costs £2 to produce, with the silver accounting for 2p of that, if the price of silver times by 5 to 10p - noone would notice now paying £2.10 for the switch! As for how to invest, i'd be split between an etf and holding bullion - there's a lot of concern that the etfs couldn't actually meet their silver committments due to a net short position. like everyone i've said this to - do your own rsearch via google or anywhere else and the answer is inescapable. Good luck.

there's a growing band of people waking up to silver as an investment. I'm unashamedly bullish on silver for the following reasons: 1) demand has outstripped supply every year of the last 15 - and for at least 60 years on average. 2) most if not all government inventories are now depleted. 3) the list of industrial uses grows (including solar panels), now more than making up for the loss from photography. 4) silver is both a precious and a base metal, meaning it's an inflation hedge and necessary for industry. 5) in many industrial applications there is no alternative - eg mirrors. 6) although silver has gone up over the past few years, the rise has been so slow (relatively) over the past few decades because there was always more in government inventories as an artificial supply. now this has gone, the sky's the limit. I'm sorry i don't know how high silver could go - the recent increase in mining is producing a little more silver than previously, but still not ebough to meet demand. The market will also accept a price of silver many times its current price - eg if an industrial switch (or mirror etc) costs £2 to produce, with the silver accounting for 2p of that, if the price of silver times by 5 to 10p - noone would notice now paying £2.10 for the switch! As for how to invest, i'd be split between an etf and holding bullion - there's a lot of concern that the etfs couldn't actually meet their silver committments due to a new short position. like everyone i've said this to - do your own rsearch via google or anywhere else and the answer is inescapable. Good luck.