Currently Paper Gold is selling @ over 100 X amount mined for the year, and Silver is worse at north of 400 X the amount mined.
I'm not going to research gold in depth for this article, but Silver mining produces around 1B Troy Ounces a year currently so its about $30 B a year in new silver worldwide, a very small amount of Gross World Product of 100T, but with paper trading over 400 they turn it into a $12T churn.
Most silver is mined as a Byproduct of other mining, Gold ,Aluminum, Copper, and other . Several reports that China is buying up silver pre-refining and that isn't reported in the 1 B ounces. Will do research and confirm or deny with sauce.
Silver is the most conductive elemental metal and that is it's usefulness in Electronics, Batteries, Solar Panels. Without the conductivity of the silver where needed, all of the above would be unpractical in regards to power transfer efficiency. Over Demand for silver has been the case for a few years, but the amount of silver stockpiled up by industries, central banks, and bullion collectors, etc... Is massive.Silver is also antimicrobial and used in internal and external medicines
Another bright spot will be when silver is legal tender and in common use. A downside is lesser demand because Meh solar, and electric cars suck.
Gold @ 100 Paper per actual oz mined, which is crazy numbers high too. Gold is also used in electronics, but a lot more sparingly, its purpose is where staying shiny and untarnished matters like CPU and connector pins. They don't have to be solid because bost electricity travels along the surface of the wire. Gold is used in dentistry, but its not that big of market. Some estimates put gold at over 50% in Jewelry, but I think that is misleading. All the Central Banks are sucking it up and have been since their inception.
Gold is more steady in % of ups and downs, but silver is way more useful, Link shows ratio of mined/ price etc. of gold and silver From link:
Geologists estimate that there are approximately 19 ounces of silver for every ounce of gold in the earthβs crust, with a ratio of approximately 11.2 ounces of silver to each ounce of gold that has ever been mined. Interestingly, the silver-gold ratio in ancient Egypt was 1:1.
Current Gold silver ratio is about 85, so gold is way over valued compared to scarcity and silver's usefulness.
Yeah, I'm pausing stacking and will focus on paying bills ahead. I had a chunk of money and wanted to make it safe, then I leveraged my credit to double my stack. Got welcome bonuses, AND 0 APR. So my yellow is at a modest profit, so I'll sell some to get debt-free. I owe SSA 11,900, and above 8K on dental (Which is also 0 APR. I love using CC at 0 APR and welcome bonuses.
I recommend APMEX Bullion card, all the sellers charge CC fees, but the Bullion card gives you their 4% fee as cash back for future purchases. They gave me a 250 Welcome bonus as well. So if you got the same deal and gold were at 2500 You would meet the requirement to get the 250 Welcome bonus 100 Cash Back and 0 APR for a year. APMEX is not the cheapest, but that deal I example is well below spot.
For Silver, I got 3 or 4 new customer deals from online big dealers. Coinhuskers on Youtube (Has a storefront in the mid n west) Runs pretty good deals, I bought my only silver bars, 5 oz and 10 oz, they are pretty nice, and probably secondary
Currently, he has APMEX gold bars at 10 over spot, and he uses Kitco spot which is a lower spot than most dealers. I bought my 5 oz and 10 oz bars at 25 cents over the spot price .
Yeah, I'm paused now too, as I've "hit my number" and then some on PM. I started a lot earlier than many during the Obongo years. I still keep an eye on the markets, if for nothing else than to gauge how ridiculous inflation has gotten...
I started in 1986 right after college. My grandpa used to gives us rounds as kids for things like Christmas, birthdays, Easter, Halloween and even report cards. That instilled the value of metals into me at an early age. I have continued the tradition with my kids and grandkids. They have all gotten silver mostly but also a bit of gold, palladium and platinum coins.
Yeah we used to get them too... but silver was worth so little for so long that the whole, "gonna be worth something some day" kinda faded into obscurity until recently.
I chuckle at the time when people thought bs like beanie babies were going to be worth something someday...lol - Like uh .... they were worth the most right before you were suckered into buying them πππ At least longerberger baskets have some utility to them ... Right ladies? π
I had a personal reset moving abroad then having to move back to USA and start over. I'm almost 66, I'm not trying to pile up, just keep a decent safety buffer. I have several things I want to do for small income streams, both are cheap to fund, and have some good potential