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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1221827, member: 3011&quot;]There was inflation every year from 1980 to 2000, and the price of silver didn&#039;t rise.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it is a sure thing that it will rise from here either.&nbsp; The continuation of high energy prices seems certain, but new discoveries, replacement by natural gas, deflation and recession might change that too for mining.&nbsp; Wage levels can fall.&nbsp; A couple of large new silver discoveries can change things.&nbsp; People forget that enormous debt levels aren&#039;t always inflated away.&nbsp; Sometimes they are defaulted[deflated] away.&nbsp; And so on...</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot can happen that would make silver prices lower a decade from now.&nbsp; People should at least know that and consider what they will do under those circumstances instead of considering $35 silver a sure thing.&nbsp; I still own silver and like silver, but I certainly don&#039;t consider the profit and loss potential any different than it is from certain common stocks that I like either.&nbsp; If you search back through some very old posts, you will probably run across a few by me stating that I though silver was virtually sure to rise back when it was in the $7-8 range, and some people disagreed.&nbsp; Now it is 5X higher, and earlier this year I actually sold some when it spiked up temporarily.&nbsp; If it goes back up and continues to trend up, I&#039;ll continue to gradually sell.&nbsp; I still think the probability of gain is greater than the probability of loss [otherwise I would bail out] but it&#039;s a closer call.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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