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You should be careful making claims based on arbitrary periods. For example, silver outperformed equities (using the S&P 500 as a proxy) by a significant amount between January 1, 2000 and January 1, 2010. Of course that isn't fair to equities (or even particularly favorable to silver in this...

It's not particularly helpful to solely match asset class versus asset class when you're doing a historical analysis of market as to what investment is "better," in this case your after tax realization. What almost always outperforms any solitary asset class is owning a spectrum of asset classes...

It could be silver in JPM's vaults and actual title belongs to a different trading entity - you're really only making silver COMEX eligible/registered if you're trading or looking to trade in the future. As far as JPM being underwater on its holdings of silver, if it even is JPM's silver, you...

Something to remember about these numbers is that there are a number of different economic metrics used to measure the amount of "money" in the world. Most of them don't involve counting every redeemable note or "original" ledger entry. That ~$10 trillion number comes from the M2 definition of...

Something to remember is that the financial statements available to the public from a publicly filed company in its 10-K and 10-Qs are aggregated. While this silver position might seem "significant" to you, you have to think about these assets in terms of all of JP Morgan's assets. J.P. Morgan...