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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1011752, member: 22143&quot;]This is a personal acnedote that can&#039;t be disputed or challenged since you didn&#039;t give any source that can be verified.&nbsp; However, the huge increases in the money supply are not accomplished these days by printing currency.&nbsp;&nbsp; In fact, the amount of circulating paper has remained fairly static if not going down.&nbsp; The huge increases are electronic and have not been released into the system and are instead, being held by the Federal Reserve.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is why there hasn&#039;t been whole scale inflation related to the huge increases.&nbsp;&nbsp; So the amount of OT of workers at the BPE is irrelevant and isn&#039;t a&nbsp; predictor.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy enough to simply go to the US Treasury and Federal&nbsp; Reserve websites and look at the US balance sheets.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s not a&nbsp; secret and no insider contacts are needed.</p><p><br /></p><p>----------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>The rise in gold and silver prices is not due to direct inflation (i.e. caused by increases in money supply).&nbsp; What is happening instead is that actions of the government, have shaken confidence in the United States government in terms of fiscal policy and the $ is suffering because large holders of this debt are looking for alternatives to protect their reserves.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus gold is going up because other countries are looking to increase their reserves of this metal to offset losses in their $ reserves.&nbsp;&nbsp; These countries still hold $&#039;s due to one important fact that should not be lost on anyone.&nbsp; It&#039;s the only way to buy oil.&nbsp;&nbsp; The US government insures, based on it&#039;s military that any country with $s, can buy oil with that money.&nbsp; It&#039;s a powerful motivation to hold US dollar reserves and one lost on most people.&nbsp; Still, the countries don&#039;t like what the Federal Reserve is doing and are buying gold as a hedge.&nbsp; This is one of the reasons that China, aside from buying gold itself, is encouraging its citizens to buy gold as well.&nbsp; They apparently believe that if there is some sort of return to gold as a standard, then their population will already be used to it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Silver on the other hand does not have the same role in the world financial system and is not dependent upon this sort of activity.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s rise is in part symbiotic and in part due to some sort of ongoing activity that seems to be taking place on silver contracts at the Comex.&nbsp; IMO, it&#039;s a much more risky investment and one that will be quicker to surprise it&#039;s holders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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