| Silver value today is not consistent with its underlying | | | | alone. |
| fundamentals of supply and demand. The high demand | | | | But what happens if a major investor decides to buy a |
| and strictly limited remaining supply both above-ground | | | | lot of silver bullion because he or she believes silver |
| and below-ground are going to ignite a price explosion | | | | prices are going to increase? |
| in the near future. This article explains one of the six | | | | A major purchase for investment purposes will tip the |
| primary reasons silver prices are about to undergo a | | | | scales and ignite the rise in silver prices. There is a |
| tremendous increase. | | | | plentiful supply of gold, stocks, real estate, and bonds; |
| Over the past 60 years, the world has consumed | | | | no single investor can buy enough to trigger the |
| over 95% of the silver bullion mined over the last 5,000 | | | | market (they could for a single small stock, but not the |
| years. Government inventories of silver bullion are | | | | entire stock market). |
| essentially zero now, the world annual production is | | | | However, the scenario for this precious metal is so |
| only about half the total silver currently being used | | | | dire, that a single major investor could in fact trigger |
| each year, and according to the U.S. Geological | | | | the market collapse resulting in astronomical silver |
| Survey, there is a low strictly-limited supply left in the | | | | prices! |
| ground. | | | | Such a major purchase for investment purposes |
| The reason the world has managed to consume 95% | | | | would be sufficient to cause significant delays of |
| of the silver mined in the last 5,000 years in just 60 | | | | deliveries to manufacturers triggering the hoarding of |
| years is because until around the 1940's, silver was | | | | inventories and further silver prices increases. In the |
| used primarily for jewelry, coins, utensils and other | | | | 1970's, silver hit $50 per ounce for a few hours, and |
| ornamental applications, and investments... just like gold. | | | | investors are still talking about it. Considering the current |
| However, starting around 1940, many industrial | | | | state of the supply and demand, the coming silver |
| applications were developed... applications that actually | | | | bubble will dwarf $50 per ounce! |
| use up silver so it is gone forever. | | | | As stated by expert, Theodore Butler, "Nothing in the |
| So, considering the high demand and applicability with a | | | | world has the potential to multiply your net worth like |
| strictly limited supply and artificially low prices, silver | | | | silver." Buy silver now! |
| prices are on the verge of exploding on fundamentals | | | | |