Silver Values

Well, it is hard to find a safe place to invest in the stock market right now. Of course, the silver and gold bulls are hanging in their with smug grins on their faces. See, gold is a commodity. And no, they are not the best performing commodity over the last several months. However, precious metals are also sticking in the middle of the pack.

The thing about precious metals as a commodity is that they are easy to take delivery of. You cannot take delivery of  corn, wheat or oil, but you can take delivery of gold and silver! This means you are not speculating on something you cannot hold. This is one appeal of gold and silver investments.

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Stocks Not Doing So Good?

Well I know that my stocks are not doing very well, and that is across the board. My precious metals stash, consisting mostly of silver US coins, has been faring much better. In fact, the increase in my PM value over the last few years is just about the only thing that keeps me from total panic these days.

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This is an interesting exercise to perform if you are concerned about the value of your gold or silver stash. Compare the price of an ounce of silver or gold in July of 2007 to the price it is today in June of 2008. Then do the same with a few of last year’s hot paper investments!

	July 2007	June 2008
Silver (Ag)	$12.90	$16.53
Gold (Au)	$655	$871
Morgan Stanley (MS)	$78	$38.28
Citigroup (C)	$52	$19.73

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It is an old saw in precious metals trading. Sell in May and Go Away. That was the traditional wisdom, and I even saw it repeated during the dip a couple of weeks ago. However, if you are still holding your stash, you may want to rethink that traditional wisdom this year.

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Is the Dollar Better Now?  

We keep looking for signs that the value of our good old US dollar is finding support, and maybe even rising. In such a case, it might be time to put our silver and gold investment on the back burner again, and jump into more “normal” investments.

 In other words, maybe we should just keep a small percentage of our savings in PMs like silver and gold as a hedge for the future, and go about our business as usual. However, many experts tell us that despite the way the news and government downplay the facts, we are not anything like close to being back to business as usual.

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The Declining Value of Your Dollar

I think that one thing illustrates the declining value of money very well. Simply look back at a point of time, and consider the amount of money took to purchase ordinary things that we still use every day. Then take a look at the amount of silver in $1 of US silver coins that actually circulated in currency. We have mentioned before that $1 of US silver coins contains .715 of an ounce of silver. So, for use as a standard, we shall call that a “standard” dollar, even though a quick look at the US silver coins calculator shows that today, that .715 ounces is worth about $12.23 of the coins or paper money you probably have in your pocket.

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We can find several sources of real jewelry at discounted prices online. Jewelry stores mark up items at an incredible rate. This becomes obvious if you ever try to resell old jewelry. At online markets you can find new jewelry without the high overheads you might find at a local high end retailer. So if you appreciate fine jewelry, but don’t want to pay more just for bragging rights, an online jewelry discounter is a place to start shopping.

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OK, so I’m a day behind. Silver-Prices.net just updated their silver stock portfolio. That post was yesterday on April 8, 2008. Even though they are, in general, bullish on silver, their opinion is that we could have a pullback on the bullion price, even down to $15 and ounce.

Now I can find lots of opinions out in cyberspace to the contrary, who believe that the time to buy is now. Personally, I cannot see how our weak dollar and increasingly challenged economy suggest anything but gradual increases in the silver price. Especially when people are having trouble finding bullion at coin dealers in many parts of the country!

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Ted Butler says that silver investement must be a long term commitment in this archive of his lastest silver article.

Silver Shortage?

Because of the many industrial uses of silver, and its value as a precious metal, he does believe the long term prospects for gain on a silver investment are still better then other PMs, including gold. And I agree that while most of the gold that has ever been minded is still around somewhere, silver gets used up in some applications. And lately, many investors were having trouble with shortages at local dealers, and even large online dealers, for common silver bullion products. In other words, he believes that silver is in short supply, even if that is not public knowledge.

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