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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 989851, member: 3011&quot;]Regarding the first point, that isn&#039;t what happened.&nbsp; The market never provided more silver than the Hunt&#039;s could afford to purchase.&nbsp; The CFTC changed the rules regarding delivery to collapse the price and left the Hunts with large losses on their long contracts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the second point, silver has few good substitutes for most applications, and is generally a very small part of the total cost of items that it is used in.&nbsp; So even if silver doubled in price, it probably represents a very small increase in overall cost that is unlikely to cause industrial users to completely redesign their product around a substitute that wouldn&#039;t perform as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>But we will have to wait and see.&nbsp; Silver is just about the only thing you can buy today for the same price it sold at three decades ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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