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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1225779, member: 3011&quot;]There is probably very little overlap between institutions that buy bonds and those that buy silver.&nbsp; And the next time interest rates move higher, it will probably be in connection with a resumption of a decline in the dollar.&nbsp; A lot of people won&#039;t want 8% taxable bonds in a currency losing value faster than that.&nbsp; In those circumstances, I don&#039;t think the expected move out of silver will take place.&nbsp; We&#039;ll have to wait and see.&nbsp; The only historical precident for this is the 1970s when silver prices rose sharply in an economy with rising and high interest rates.&nbsp; So expecting the opposite to happen might seem logical, but may not occur.</p><p><br /></p><p>What will eventually end the bull market in silver is either (1) an end to budget deficits or (2) a bubble in silver with a blow off top at prices undreamed of.&nbsp; The least likely outcome is for the price rise to fizzle out because individual investors world wide come to prefer 3% CD rates to $40 silver.&nbsp; Of course a third possibility is for there to be a massive deflationary depression with bond defaults, another and total collapse of real estate, and 30% unemployment.&nbsp; I guess that would hurt silver too if it happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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