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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1140023, member: 25357&quot;]<i>Like gold, silver benefits from the perception that irresponsible central bankers are intent on dooming paper currencies – a view that endures even as policymakers in Europe consider rate hikes and the Fed approaches the end of its unpopular bond-buying program.</i></p><p><i>But unlike gold, silver trades in a relatively thin market where prices are apt to spike when sentiment is positive and plunge when it isn&#039;t.</i></p><p><i>Even at the elevated prices prevailing now, the annual output of global silver mines is worth just $27 billion or so, says Winmill. That&#039;s the size of a good-sized but certainly not giant public company, such as, say, Dell (</i><a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=dell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=dell" rel="nofollow"><b><span style="color: #004276"><i>DELL</i></span></b></a><i>). That means there is a small doorway for a huge number of people to squeeze through when silver gets hot.</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I cut the above excerpt from an article on Fortune magazine.&nbsp; I think it captures some of the reasons behind why we&#039;ve seen silver explode recently.&nbsp; Of course the down side is that silver can drop just as dramatically.&nbsp; Bullion investor beware!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s a link to the article, it&#039;s one of the better articles I&#039;ve read on PM investing.</p><p><a href="http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/28/fools-silver/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/28/fools-silver/" rel="nofollow">http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/28/fools-silver/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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