$200 or $400 silver is outrageous when we think in terms of today’s dollars, euros, and yen but what if

Greed is a powerful motivator, but in the extreme it is cause for fear. Below we provide 10 reasons to be fearful.

By definition, rare events should seldom occur and applying that understanding to financial markets assumes that all market events follow a normal distribution or, in layman's terms, a bell-shaped curve. More specifically, the statistics say that 99.7% of all daily movements should fall within three standard deviations of the mean, no more. Well, guess what? New research suggests that they clearly don't follow such a pattern - that "unlikely" doesn't mean "never". [Let me expand on that.] Words: 1079; Charts: 1

What's an individual investor to do to make sure that his investments will not be completely wiped out in the coming financial Armageddon? Gold is the answer.

The massive increase in monetary expansion initiated by the Federal Reserve in the wake of the lockdowns imposed to address Covid-19 is clearly a reason to own gold and, in the case of equity investors, gold mining stocks, on a long-term basis.

You have been warned! The financial world is descending into the trap of exponentially increasing debt that leads, slowly or rapidly, toward an abyss of monetary madness that can only mean much higher gold and silver prices in the future.

A look (not a prediction) at a series of not improbable events that could develop [and which] would change our economic world overnight.

Technically the U.S. left the gold standard in 1971 but, in reality, we abandoned it in 1913 with the creation of the Fed...setting the stage for the collapse of the dollar. [Given that this is] the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve, it seems only fitting that we should present a brief history of the U.S. dollar debasement since then. Words: 1144

Those who prefer silver always seem to think the ratio of gold to silver is going to reverse “soon” - and it might; maybe significantly so, too - but there are no fundamental reasons for the ratio to move up or down at any given time and, as such, there is no reason to track it, either.

I am increasingly bullish on the prospects for silver, for the following three primary reasons: