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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1265269, member: 27043&quot;]While, in general, I completely agree with this sentiment...investing in pipe dreams is what creates bubbles (Though, admittedly, the early adopters of bubbles can make some decent money *heh*) isn&#039;t ALL investing, at least to some degree, &quot;anticipation of things happening that currently do not exist and are not in the pipeline&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>At least to some degree, a great many investments are made based on sound fundamentals of a company/project/issue, with the anticipation that they will come together to, say, produce something that doesn&#039;t exist yet.&nbsp; Indeed, the BEST investments over the longest terms are those made in companies that create things that were unthinkable when the investment was made.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless you care to assert that Apple, IBM, and Microsoft, were lousy investments in their first 5 years. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do, however, see and agree with what I believe to be your actual point...it&#039;s probably unwise to invest (or choose not to) based on a series of unsubstantiated &quot;what ifs&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, MY original point was, pretty specifically, not that any of those things WOULD happen, or even that one should or should not invest in silver because they MIGHT...but rather to counter your statement that:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly, that&#039;s NOT the only way...and that was my point.&nbsp; There ARE other ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I agree with your point...investing based on &quot;what might happen if&quot; is probably a lousy idea...I&#039;m not sure investing based on an incomplete, limited set of options is much better. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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