I think this is easily forgotten. I think I'm like many people on the forum in that I've been collecting PMs (Gold and silver) since the early 2000's. I was (and definitely still am) purchasing PMs with the fundamentals being a world wide financial system that appears to be in trouble. In 2008, when the house of cards was badly shaken, both gold and silver dipped significantly, silver down dramaticly. While I love the "silver to da moon" mantra, reality is that it will probably drop to the floor first with any huge world wide financial shakeup. It would only be in the financial "re-ordering" of the world wide economic system, that both gold and silver as assetts with value, MAY show their value. "May" being the operative word.............. and "value" being the other.