Apple Inc. Vs. Physical Silver

Silver's monetary role contributing to the metal's explosive growth

Silver is increasingly becoming a global monetary metal, mostly due to inflationary concerns and the debasement of the world's major currencies. And that's the main driver for silver's surging bull market, according to some key players in the precious metals investment sector.

Rising inflation in China and India, as well as Europe's ongoing sovereignty debt crisis, are major contributors to gold and silver reverting back to their traditional "safe haven" status, according to New York-based James Steel, a precious metals analyst for HSBC Securities.  

Source: http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page31?oid=123337&sn=Detail&pid=31

In India Post Office is selling gold coins like hotcakes

The humble post office is the latest organisation to get into the gold act in India. Standard 24 carat gold coins have been selling like hotcakes at over 466 post offices dotted throughout the country.  

Despite the current high price, Indian consumers have been buying small quantities of coins to give as gifts during the festival season. With the spring, harvesting and wedding season all in full swing in India, demand for the yellow metal has shown a substantial climb.

The gold coins are manufactured by Valcambi in Switzerland. "Apart from enhancing the revenue of the postal department and services, the move has enabled us to usher in a new image of the India Post as a modern and relevant organisation. Gold coins are showing to have an immense pull-factor with the younger generation,'' said a postal official, requesting anonymity.

Source: http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page31?oid=123382&sn=Detail&pid=31

Silver vs Gold by Jim Cramer (Silver will outperform)

This video first came on Sept 2010. 

Silver is 4 - 5 times rarer than Gold. It is vanishing fast, due to industrial uses and is too cheap to recycle. In the not too distant future it will be more expensive than Gold. Get some now while they are giving it away. It will be like buying 25 Van Gogh paintings for nothing, when he was alive. Silver is a tremendous long term investment. 

$46,269/second

What is that number?  The other day, a politician say that the U.S. is currently borrowing $4B per day. I thought, "no way", but that's pretty close. $4B x 365 = $1.46T. Yikes!!

So I started to work it backwards and I got $46,269/second. That's how much the U.S. is borrowing (printing) every freaking second of every freaking day. Oh, but if you listen to CNBC or read Barron's, you'll hear that QE3 is very much in doubt. Whatever...

Both metals closed strong today. Combine that with the strength in crude and the grains and you've got something to build on. It looks almost certain that gold and silver will head back toward the levels that we're giving them so much trouble earlier this week. Gold will trade toward 1430 and silver toward 36. From there? Well you know that whatever power-that-be that was so intent on holding those lines this week will re-emerge. It will be a very interesting..

US Dollar: Failed Annual Cycle confirmed

The US Dollar is falling apart fast. Really fast. Two days ago it completed a failed daily cycle when it traded below 76.12. Now, the US Dollar has already failed its yearly cycle by trading below 75.63. The next downside target for the US Dollar would be the 3 year cycle low at 70.70. 

Please see this: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqOqbRxRAWAr2gaYTc5aNSaa0Q83_UUnE6xzqp2qZEr_vac3msGLrVlEEj8WfDNpiIKF-EI60eVcvZcqcsmxK9UBe9QmoxW43qBlMwaeDhUED4rdezBtWyLOeH8sBdADX1cKVfu1gbh9fF/s1600/7558.png

Can you comprehend what will happen to the price of commodities when people realize that the world's reserve currency is in a precipitous freefall? Who will want to own the currency then?

Who wants to own it now, for that matter? Something like 70% of all new government debt is being purchased by our FED - not the Japanese, or Saudis or Chinese. Americans are buying their own debt because no one else wants it.

So what will people buy with dollars to get rid of them? Why, just about anything that is tangible, for starters. Such as, you guessed it, gold and silver. I believe at some point just weeks away people will make this exchange in shear emotional panic as the waterfall they are riding is accelerating towards earth.

For a relatively brief period of time precious metals will be seen by many as the only way to save ones self from the onslaught of hyper inflation. And as you know, this is the dynamic that fuels a parabolic rise in price.....too many people desperately chasing a solution to an impossible problem.

This is a great time to buy precious metals and their miners.

Libya: Five Reasons Not to Intervene

As Moammar Gadhafi’s thugs move toward Benghazi, the rebel stronghold, and the provisional government calls for arms and other assistance from the West – principally the United States – we are told to put all doubts aside and simply respond to the alleged moral imperative of preventing a slaughter. This, intone the interventionists, is an “emergency,” which means: we must stop thinking, and respond emotionally to the call to “do something.”


Source: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/03/15/libya-five-reasons-not-to-intervene/print/