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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1156396, member: 3011&quot;]We do not live in a society with free markets and perfect competition as the textbooks use.&nbsp; In the textbook, supply always equals demand at some price and everything looks neat on the graph.&nbsp; In the real world, when there are insufficient supply/inventories of commodities like silver, food and oil there will be factory lines shutting down, people starving, homes without heat and long gas lines filled with people who can&#039;t go anywhere anyway.&nbsp; But supply will still equal demand on the graph, just at a higher price.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But in the case of the silver data &quot;collected&quot; by the Silver Institute, there is an even greater problem because the data appears false to me.&nbsp; Do you really think silver demand by industry has been flat for 10 years?&nbsp; I would think that after a decade of finacial scandals that a little more caution is warranted before accepting ANY statistics put out by ANY organization, especially when they don&#039;t match up with what people are seeing in the real world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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