Back to the OP...is this a good time to buy silver?
The best time to buy is when the price is low
Is the price low now then?
Arguably it is quite low but not all time low. It is now clear by repeated examples that the best time to buy it is when there is high emotion governing price action south. This was the case in the height of it in March. Everyone here that night saw the price plunge. There were some truly excellent bargains to be had in the USA, if you pulled the trigger (about $11 USD for ASEs) . In Australia you could buy around 23 dollars per coin from ABC bullion if you wanted. At that point, there was plenty of stock to gorge on.
A couple of things that may be relevant..
Shenanigans aside, the “new” US administration intends to confect a couple of trillion USD out of thin air and spend it on whatever its lobbyists desire.
This should have an inflationary effect on commodities in general. But given that moneyed people in the USA and China are buying arable land now, logically soft commodities stand to gain in price and thus agricultural land. If you don’t have any, maybe it is time to think about it.
The second issue is the “green” boondoggle so favoured by the top for decades now, at least since Gore was given a Nobel, but likely decades before. Literally taxing carbon-12 and by proxy the air you breathe.
Biden can be regarded as a bought and paid for president, apparently receiving the most votes ever in the history of the USA on a campaign run from his basement. I guess he was just too popular so out of compassion cancelled his inauguration, thinking about like people crushed in the ecstatic crowds that would throng his every movement like Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg rallies.
Given “Biden” intends to spend up big time on so-called green tech, in a perverse way hard money advocates may see the POS rise for this reason. Silver paste is something to watch specifically.