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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;InfleXion, post: 1260763, member: 29012&quot;]I don&#039;t really like to compare precious metals to stocks. They&#039;re not pieces of paper, numbers floating in cyberspace, IOU&#039;s, or representations of value. They ARE value, and are in a class of their own. Sure there is the paper trade which influences the physical price, but that paper has no intrinsic value and is not representative of the physical supply. It is a fact that the amount of shorts in the paper trade outweighs the amount of longs (for both gold and silver), so if it were to disappear the physical price would have to go up. </p><p><br /></p><p>Gold is a meter for measuring buying power. That is it&#039;s primary function as a store of wealth. It doesn&#039;t do much else, and what it is telling us today is that we have a lot less buying power than we used to. Silver has posted 100% year over year gains each month since March of this year. What exactly is being done that could stop this trend that not even margin hikes can impact?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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