Parity and above

[Preciousmetal]

Some analysts have argued that with the present silver fundamentals, silver could one day reach parity with gold, or even become more expensive. Now I'm sure most people don't hold this position, but I was wondering if we could have a (sane) discussion on this point, and mention some of the analysts who speak about this possibility with their proofs.

 

[Jislizard]

Well, silver is more useful than gold, industrially speaking.

Silver gets used up whereas gold tends to hang around.

I could see it reaching parity, or rather, I can't see why gold is so expensive based on the fact that it doesn't do much, same thing with diamonds, I can't understand why they are so expensive other than a manipulated supply!

Good luck with the sane discussion

 

[hiho]

Silver has always been the poorer cousin of gold, why I don't know but storage wise it takes up more less space than Gold

gold specific gravity 19320
silver specific gravity 10490

 

[Butch]

Now come on HiHo how can gold take up more space than silver?

 

[fishball]

Now come on HiHo how can gold take up more space than silver?

For the same weight of metal they do, not the same value.

1oz Gold takes more space than 1oz Silver, that's what he's saying. (WHICH WAS PROVEN WRONG )

 

[hiho]

Now come on HiHo how can gold take up more space than silver?

your eyes must be deceiving ya

 

[Jislizard]

Now come on HiHo how can gold take up more space than silver?

For the same weight of metal they do, not the same value.

1oz Gold takes more space than 1oz Silver, that's what he's saying.

Maybe it's sleep depravation but isn't it the other way around?

 

[hiho]

Now come on HiHo how can gold take up more space than silver?

For the same weight of metal they do, not the same value.

1oz Gold takes more space than 1oz Silver, that's what he's saying.

no I kucfed up, silver of the same weight takes up 80% more space than Gold

 

[Guest]

Look at the dimensions of the phillharmonic 1 oz gold next to the 1oz silver. They have the same diameter but the gold coin is significantly thinner.

 

[Naphthalene Man]

Some analysts have argued that with the present silver fundamentals, silver could one day reach parity with gold, or even become more expensive. Now I'm sure most people don't hold this position, but I was wondering if we could have a (sane) discussion on this point, and mention some of the analysts who speak about this possibility with their proofs.

could one day.... that's a bet each way isn't it with no timeframes?
To infinity and beyond!

 

[goldpelican]

Anything's possible... in the 1700s people probably scoffed at the idea of gold and aluminium parity.

Then in the 1800s they scoffed at the idea of silver and aluminium parity.

Now aluminium is cheaper than copper.

 

[hiho]

Anything's possible... in the 1700s people probably scoffed at the idea of gold and aluminium parity.

Then in the 1800s they scoffed at the idea of silver and aluminium parity.

Now aluminium is cheaper than copper.

and don't forget the tulips

 

[goldpelican]

Well tulips were a genuine short lived bubble - aluminium was genuinely once a precious metal, because there was no process for extracting it from ore - we were basically limited to extremely rare naturally pure aluminium. There's a stub in Wikipedia about it - Napoleon III's VIP guests were served with aluminium cutlery, "regular" guests got the boring silver cutlery.

 

[Ag]

I see Parity with Gold sometime in my life...I'll get flamed for saying it but 2020 it will be the scarest element with the highest demand. It will have to be extremely high to get the tight grips of some of us to release physcal

 

[Cinvalo]

Well, silver is more useful than gold, industrially speaking.

Silver gets used up whereas gold tends to hang around.

I could see it reaching parity, or rather, I can't see why gold is so expensive based on the fact that it doesn't do much, same thing with diamonds, I can't understand why they are so expensive other than a manipulated supply!

Good luck with the sane discussion

I think the gold is initially used to back all the currency that has been created, it gives a more stable financial system with much lower inflation and government spend more carefully. Until 1971, president Nixon took us off the gold standard, we see trade deficit goes out of hand and inflation accelerates. Gold is getting expensive in terms of our currency.

 

[1for1]

Some analysts have argued that with the present silver fundamentals, silver could one day reach parity with gold, or even become more expensive. Now I'm sure most people don't hold this position, but I was wondering if we could have a (sane) discussion on this point, and mention some of the analysts who speak about this possibility with their proofs.

1for1

1for1

 

[SilverMark]

Anything's possible... in the 1700s people probably scoffed at the idea of gold and aluminium parity.

Then in the 1800s they scoffed at the idea of silver and aluminium parity.

Now aluminium is cheaper than copper.

Though aluminium was only so expensive 150 years ago as it was difficult to process from ores and therefore very expensive.