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<p>[QUOTE="jolumoga, post: 26704851, member: 41780"]I'll say something a bit radical here, and this is preliminarily through my online sleuthing as well as logical deduction: silver investing is understated globally. Silver coinage was used in much of the world in modern times - which numismatists today have access to - and the global markets have moved in synchrony as they have been digitized. Silver has been declared a strategic metal - officially or unofficially - by the U.S. and China. Silver jewelry is popular in almost all of the world. I know the rhetoric is that silver as an investment is popular mainly in North America, Europe, and South Asia, but I think this is now a stretch and increasingly outdated. I know, some experts might nail me to the cross for saying this, but I think there is an either/or fallacy operating here that distorts discussions.</p><p><br /></p><p>*To be clear, I think the lines between investment and non-investment are more blurry than commonly assumed. We buy silver jewelry in part because we know silver is precious, even if just as jewelry and not as an investment vehicle per se.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jolumoga, post: 26704851, member: 41780"]I'll say something a bit radical here, and this is preliminarily through my online sleuthing as well as logical deduction: silver investing is understated globally. Silver coinage was used in much of the world in modern times - which numismatists today have access to - and the global markets have moved in synchrony as they have been digitized. Silver has been declared a strategic metal - officially or unofficially - by the U.S. and China. Silver jewelry is popular in almost all of the world. I know the rhetoric is that silver as an investment is popular mainly in North America, Europe, and South Asia, but I think this is now a stretch and increasingly outdated. I know, some experts might nail me to the cross for saying this, but I think there is an either/or fallacy operating here that distorts discussions. *To be clear, I think the lines between investment and non-investment are more blurry than commonly assumed. We buy silver jewelry in part because we know silver is precious, even if just as jewelry and not as an investment vehicle per se.[/QUOTE]
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