-->Ein Auszug aus Butlers aktuellem Kommentar (Link siehe unten):

"Let me explain again why there is more gold above ground than silver. I’m going to use round numbers compiled from a variety of sources, such as the US Geological Survey, the Silver Institute, The World Gold Council, and various recognized statistical services. Throughout history, there has been many times more silver extracted from the earth than gold. In fact, just about 8 times as much, or 40 billion ounces of silver compared to 5 billion ounces of gold. Interestingly, this historical rate of extraction continues to this day, as 7.5 times as much silver is currently mined than gold. So how can it be that silver is more rare, if we are taking amounts of silver from the earth that are 7 to 8 times the amounts of gold extracted?

The answer is in how we use gold and silver. Gold is used in a regal manner, for jewelry and investment, befitting its hundreds of dollars per ounce price tag over the past 25 years. Such a price tag assures it will not be squandered, but saved and revered. You don’t waste something that carries a $450/oz price tag. Silver, over that same period, has averaged a mere $5 per ounce. That assures that it’s used and consumed extensively in industry, especially considering its unique properties of being the best electrical conductor, heat conductor, reflector, photographic agent and health aid, among many other properties. Something this useful and cheap gets consumed extensively.

Gold we save or wear, silver we consume industrially. (We actually use much more silver than gold even in jewelry, but given the very high labor and fabrication component in silver jewelry, no reclamation is possible except at silver prices many times the current price. So even silver used in jewelry is effectively consumed). The numbers bear this out. Of the 5 billion ounces of gold mined throughout history, just about all of it is still around. Of the 40 billion ounces of silver produced, just about all of it has been consumed. If there were billions of ounces of silver around and ready to be dumped on the market, where is it? How would you hide billions of ounces of silver?"
<ul> ~ http://www.investmentrarities.com/09-20-05.html</ul>

-->Er wird langsam zur tragischen Figur. Ich vermute nach Butlers Tod (welcher hoffentlich noch in weiter Ferne liegt)wird Silber tatsächlich explodieren.

-->Mir wäre es ernsthaft peinlich, ständig dieselbe Leier zu erzählen....
Es mag ja Recht haben.... ABER"Recht haben" und"zu Lebzeiten Recht bekommen" sind zwei völlig verschiedene Dinge. Daran sind schon ganz andere Persönlichkeiten gescheitert!
Ich hoffe nur, daß sein Vermögen nur zu einem"vernünftigen" Prozentsatz aus Silber besteht.... wobei ich"vernünftig" mit etwa 1 % vom Gesamtvermögen taxieren würde.... aber auch ich kann natürlich falsch liegen.
Gruß
Hasso

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First of all, you don&#8217;t become president of the Silver Institute unless you are recognized as a team player by all the other members of the Institute. Its many peoples opinion (mine included) that the Silver Institute is in bed with the Silver Users Association

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After five years of beating my head against the wall with various and sundry silver mining companies, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that they all know what&#8217;s going on, but won&#8217;t deal with this issue with their own shareholders&#8230;or even admit that there is a problem. The fact of the matter is they just don&#8217;t want to go there.
But why not?
I believe that some of these guys have been bought off. Their silence is paid for. They are part of the establishment themselves. The rest just fall into line because, in the grand scheme of things, they know what side their bread is buttered on&#8230;and to hell with their stockholders.
This is the effect that the big &#8216;silver lie&#8217; has had on the top players in all the major silver companies that we hold shares in. This lie has been going on for so long that it has become institutionalized all the way from the SEC, COMEX, NYMEX and the CFTC&#8230;and through the Silver Institute and the major silver producers/resource companies themselves. All of us that fired off letters to the CFTC and Eliot Spitzer at the behest of Ted Butler know that we received the standard reply that everything is fine. But&#8230;as Mr. Butler pointed out&#8230;that is the reply that they have to give. To admit otherwise is not an option. The following quote by Rabbi Wayne Dosick spells out exactly the situation that exists in the top echelons of the silver market today:"The reality is&#8230;if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever."

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<ul> ~ http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/steer/2005/0919.html</ul>

-->Hasso,
Gold hat den S&P 500 nun 5 Jahre hintereinander geschlagen auf Basis Jahresperformance, 2005 so far wieder dasselbe - was willst Du mehr? Silber hat prozentuell mehr zugelegt als Gold seit 2001 (>100%), aber unter größerer Volatilität.
Manfred