The down side of silver is this. There is a huge amount of domestic silver out there. It's in everything from picture frames, wives get silver serving sets for wedding gifts, knick nacks are made from it, tons of jewerly, belt buckles, tops of canes, etc. etc. If the prices for silver go up too much, you will see a huge amount of this stuff flowing to the cash for gold places who will gladly take silver too. I know if it goes up much, I'll take the old silver spoon that I use to dish out cat food to the local pawn shop.
Interesting read...may be time to think about platinum. TC http://www.chron.com/business/press...s-to-Lead-to-Reduced-World-Supply-3685421.php