The thing about silver is if you do get ripped on a ten ounce bar your out three or four hundred bucks rather than 18k, less whatever can be recovered from the gold shells. The thought of getting a gold shell filled with tungsten might scare physical gold investors to death not to mention the ETF crowd.
Maybe your thinking about the link about how China was going to crack down on counterfeit goods? It would appear their claim hasn't quite jelled yet.
no - I just remember having this conversation previously, or at least the first two posts. Eh - it happens often, and it never means anything.
I'm sure there are quite a few people out there who aren't buying gold because of the increasing chance of encountering counterfeits. But is it a big enough number to have an effect on the markets?
I don't believe there is anyway to know. If gold starts tanking it could be for any number of reasons or combinations of reasons. But this has to have some kind of impact. It's just too big of a potenial loss for people to ignore.
