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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SilverSurfer, post: 777816, member: 21603&quot;]I have two pet peeves when reading about the silver market.&nbsp; First, I&#039;m sick of hearing how silver has outperformed gold last year.&nbsp; Because, when you compare the market crash that happened in 2008, silver was taken to the shredders, while gold held it&#039;s value.&nbsp; So, it only makes sense that silver &quot;outperformed&quot; gold since it has so much catching up to do.&nbsp; Here&#039;s another way to think of it......If silver outperformed gold 2 to 1, then why is gold at an all time high and silver still lags behind it&#039;s highest price......Because it crashed harder in 2008, which isn&#039;t included in any of these stupid reports.&nbsp; For a bullion buyer, nobody actually bought the physical silver for $9 an ounce.&nbsp; The premiums earlier this year were so outrageous that bullion buyers were probably more in line with paying $15 or $16 an ounce.&nbsp; At the current price of $17.40 an ounce, that&#039;s not much of a profit.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Second pet peeve is the talk about gold and silver not being a good inflation hedge.&nbsp; Of course, people purporting that usually go to 1979 and compare gold to treasuries and stocks.&nbsp; Funny that they choose 1979, the year when gold and silver were highly overvalued.&nbsp; So, yeah, if you bought gold or silver in 1979 and hung onto it all those years, you made a bad investment.&nbsp; However, if you compare 2000 to 2010 you see that gold way outperforms both treasuries and stocks.&nbsp; So, I have a pet peeve on this one sided view of data.&nbsp; Can someone who talks about 1979 to 2010 also include a chart showing 2000 to 2010, to show that this last decade gold and silver are good inflationary hedges.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Idea?&nbsp; Comments?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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