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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1497065, member: 3011&quot;]I don&#039;t know that silver is &quot;following&quot; gold.&nbsp; A lot of commodities are up over the past decade as the third world industrializes and consumes more.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t mean there is a causal relationship among them.&nbsp; Silver isn&#039;t a monetary metal.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t used for money.&nbsp; I agree with you that silver has characteristics that make it good to use as money.&nbsp; It just isn&#039;t at the present time.&nbsp; Maybe someday someplace it will be money again.&nbsp; I have no visibility to that.&nbsp; A lot of things have been used as money, but that doesn&#039;t make them &quot;monetary&quot; commodities.&nbsp; I read Ted Butler because I try to read all I can about investments I hold whether I agree with the author or not.&nbsp; I also read a lot of pro/con articles about peak oil because I am a long time investor in the energy sector, but I don&#039;t have religiously strong feelings either way.&nbsp;&nbsp; I like silver as an investment, but not because I believe it is manipulated.&nbsp; It may turn out to be manipulated, and I will benefit from the price rise, but I don&#039;t expect this to happen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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