The Silver Bull Market: Four Investment Factors to Consider Before Buying Silver or Gold
In Shayne McQuire’s The Silver Bull Market, he highlighted four important factors to consider before buying silver or gold:
1) Investment safety refers to your capital protection from the financial market risks. Most people always lament that owning silver or gold bullion does not provide dividend incomes. However, they don’t realize that precious metals allows you to remove wealth from the financial system. This is because gold and silver have historically been used as store of wealth and gold in particular, is seen as an effective tool to beat inflation. Take the current Euro crisis as an example. Greece is facing possible exit from the Euro because of its massive national debts. The country had been previously bailed out with a $275 billion international loan and is now asking for fresh fund of $10 billion euros in short term financing. Clearly, the country’s plight shows that the Europe economies are not doing well and holding on to the Euro currency might be risky as it could face possible devaluation if the crisis spreads across Europe.
2) Investment potential refers to the ability for the price of silver or gold to rise over the long term. It is interesting to note that while Warren Buffett disdains gold for its lack of utility, he views silver differently and even purchased 130 million ounces (at low price of $6) in the late 1990s, one fifth of the global production at the time. He would have made a lot of money in the period of 2008, the year of the worst global financial crisis in recent memory. This was because silver performed extremely well against other investments.
3) Liquidity risk refers to the ease of buying and selling silver or gold. This can be an important consideration as who would want to buy something …
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