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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1155693, member: 3011&quot;]The only even somewhat neutral source for silver supply and demand statistics is the annual World Silver Survey by the Silver Institute.&nbsp; But when you look at their numbers, it indicates that non-investment demand for silver on a world-wide basis never increases.&nbsp; It is virtually unchanged from 2001 to 2011.&nbsp; The only way this is even remotely possible is if all of the GDP growth statistics published around the world are falsified.&nbsp; Their charts also show that supply exactly equals demand every year, which implies that there are never any changes in world inventories of silver - another impossibility.&nbsp; There is also some strange action around 2008.&nbsp; Silver is largely produced as a byproduct, and even though mine production of other metals fell in the recession, silver mine production rose in the statistics.&nbsp; Are you picking up a pattern here?&nbsp; So rather than concentrate on what the reported numbers are, it might pay to concentrate on what they mean, or if they are even reliable.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think anybody really knows what silver supply and demand figures are, so no intelligent conclusions can be made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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