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Surely that graph is moronic? You can graph anything, pick the two low points, draw a straight line between them and extropolate, and then draw a parallel line passing through the high point. So what?

Inflation-adjustment of what? A peak 30 yrs ago when billionaires tried to corner the market? Source: http://silverprice.org/charts/history/silver_all_data_o_b_usd.png?0.6473361369185553

Ron Paul -- like Bernie Sanders -- is admirable in that he isn't clearly corrupt. But who's fooling who? Paul wants small government with even fewer taxes and regulations. This means he's zero threat to the rich, in fact he's their dream president. Banksters must quietly love him.

Keen and Chapman are not comparable. Keen is a scientist (albeit of the dismal variety) and provides maths to explain his predictions and his mistakes. He is one of the dozen professional economists on the planet who predicted the GFC. Keen predicts a turn in the multi-decade Australian...

i think things have recently changed, and silver now looks a less insane bet in a falling stock market. i'm too cautious to do it but today is so far the only day in 2011 that this thought has entered my mind... BTFD.

hi Dusty, thanks for raising the topic of the early 21st century's Precious Metals Cult. Membership criteria include calling more successful people than yourself "sheeple"; a belief the social system will reboot to reward borderline-antisocial individuals with shiny metal; and scorn for those...

Silver has recently been following the stock market, and the market has a long way left to fall.

<reality check> It's too early to know who's holding what bag, but this is a gambling game against vastly bigger professional players with just two weaknesses -- the delusion that unregulated global capitalism is the end of history (so they didn't see the PM bull or GFC1 coming); and greed (so...

Here are my thoughts, all potentially very wrong. I'm commenting from an Australian/AUD perspective. 1. GFC2 will happen eventually. This month's stock and commodity bubble deflation could even mark its commencement (but probably does not). 2. Once GFC2 is underway the initial reaction will...

Blathering idiots and paranoid psychos best understand the silver market but i shall humbly attempt to distill their wisdom. When the price of silver goes up, it is fundamentals. Buy. When the price of silver goes down, it is manipulation. Buy. Conclusion for today? Buy. Hope that was...

i thought last week looked and smelt like a peak -- bull trap anyone? i sold most of my silver today and made a reasonable profit equivalent to 30% pa return. btw, is it true that yippe is really a computer-generated troll programmed to give the world's worst investment advice? so long, and...

oh dear, i don't get it, mr bob chapman put "world government" and "planned collapse" in the same paragraph. listen dudes/dudettes, conspiracy theories offer the comfort that somebody somewhere knows what they're doing but elites have no interest in a world goverment. aside from the fact...

if silver went to $10000 /oz i'd: 1. eat my hat 2. calculate the 1000oz i'd once owned would now be worth $10m but decide i was doing just fine regardless 3. wake up and recall silverbugs crying conspiracy when the price had collapsed from a two or three digit peak 4. wonder why my guts hurt...

hi SilverYoo. I'd suggest you concentrate on your family and studies, silver is far less important. Medicine is a fabulous career. You're paid highly for helping people, and can soon enough pay down your debt. If you're concerned about the USA imploding in coming years or decades (which...

enjoyed some of the answers but i keep receipts and if i make a profit i'll pay cgt. provided i hold metal for over a yr cgt is only 22.5% (and that's with income over $180K pa; if you earnt under $37K that year you'd keep 92.5% of profits). agree there's lots of govt wastage but flood...

i only skimmed "the richest man in babylon" but surely its only useful lesson is that self-discipline and forethought assist in achieving goals? otherwise isn't the guy simply an arsehat oblivious to kids dying around him from poverty? anyway, we can't all be rich because there'd be nobody to...

FWIW my decision was to put a maximum of 10% net worth into PMs. I purchased 3% net worth initially and only buy more if prices drop 25% and 50% from my entry point.

Past performance usually indicates future performance. My past performance is consistent. I enter parties late and leave before the best action. I've recently entered the PM party so this must be late stage 2 or early stage 3. I (almost) always make money when I speculate but sell well...