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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 2011666, member: 37498&quot;]We seem to hear this a lot, and Medoraman covered it pretty well, but let&#039;s go ahead and put some numbers to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say you had $100 in 1913 and invested it over the years in various small business stocks.&nbsp; Small business stocks have historically averaged over 10%, but let&#039;s say you actively traded, made some bad decisions, paid some fees and taxes, etc..&nbsp; So let&#039;s figure a very conservative 5% average return.</p><p><br /></p><p>$100 invested over 102 years with an average return of 5% would net you $13,807 today.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you used that $100 to buy silver instead, you would have $1,341 worth of silver today.</p><p><br /></p><p>This tells us that small business stocks, which actually do something for you to appreciate in value, have performed at least 10x better than silver over the past 100 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course both stocks and PM have performed better than stuffing dollar bills into your mattress, or keeping them in a non interest bearing account, which is essentially what the graph in the OP represents.</p><p><br /></p><p>(BTW: If you earned the average return of 10%, you would have $1,515,867, or 1130x more money than your silver would be worth.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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