Buy A House With Silver

This is my plan. I am divesting out of silver and into gold when the ratio hits 10, and further when it hits 5. I will never get rid of all of it.

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Buy A House With Silver

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I had two purposes in writing today’s commentary. The most obvious intent is to help people avoid committing financial suicide in our real estate markets. However, an equally important goal was to provide people with some sort of quasi-objective “measuring stick” to answer an important question: how high is “high”, when it comes to precious metals prices – and in particular the price of silver?

The first topic can be dealt with (in general terms) rather quickly. The criminal near-zero interest rates imposed on us by our banker-serving governments mean that any and every economy which allows such recklessness will always have a housing market in some stage of “bubble”.

Near-zero interest rates punish savers. When near-zero interest rates are combined with high inflation, this is nothing less than the economic rape of savers – the specialty of Western bankers. With savers forced to disgorge any/all savings (to avoid it being ‘stolen’ via banker-created inflation), the first place capital flows in such situations is into real estate markets.

There are two reasons why real estate will always represent the first/worst bubbles to afflict such markets. First of all real estate is the most obvious asset-class to turn to in such circumstances. Secondly, many/most Western economies provide some level of subsidization for home-ownership – further “juicing” these real estate bubbles. The fact that the U.S. subsidizes home-buying more than any other economy is one of the reasons the U.S. housing market continues to represent the world’s worst real estate bubble (with massive, systemic fraud being the other main driver).

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