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So, if this idea is so obvious, and so brilliant, why have the silver miners not already acted and bought silver? The problem is the same thing that creates the opportunity for silver stock investors today. The problem is the 22-year bear market in silver from the peak in 1980. This bear market has affected the mentality of nearly every silver miner and silver investor who has suffered living through it. It is human nature to resist change, to be slow to change, to be slow to recognize change, and to continue to conduct business as usual. But a change from a bear market in silver to a bull market requires a change in actions and a change in thinking. Therefore, this change is coming. Silver companies will soon be buying silver, just as gold companies have been buying back hedges.
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