Has Silvers time hit! Buy at the bottom?

[Oliver88]

SF3- If you bought silver would it be physical bars, paper certificates, futures, shares in a mining company, ETF?

[stonepicker]

I'd rather buy silver than mutual funds.

[ajl]

If the boom in ag is done then silver will not be going up either. The artificial manipulation of interest rates by central bankers drives up both. I owned Nat Gas ETF in 2009 sold it with a bit of gain and now the price of NG is slightly lower than it was when I had it six years ago. If Canada does QE then silver will go up in $Cdn but I would rather own greenbacks.

[stonepicker]

The biggest use of silver is in electrical and electronics among a lot of other uses. Silver usage will be around for a long time. Much more upside than downside imo.

[Ache4Acres]

Economies of the world are all in a major state of hurt. China is slowing terribly. Caterpillar is a great global bellwether and now they are predicting a 5% drop next year. Interest rates are not going to be rising anytime soon. Oil is about to take another shit kicking unless they can drop a few thousand more bombs over the Middle East. Poor Alberta is going to be on its knees begging for some federal handouts and Sask lined up right behind it. This gets worse before it gets better. As for silver, who knows, I think it's likely heading lower but at some point it will turn positive...maybe in my lifetime.

[biglentil]

Yep no safe place whatsoever to put your money except the US dollar. Haha