The Truth About Silver and Gold

Come one, come all! The important thing is that you come! I’m talking about the Phoenix Investment Conference and Silver Summit on February 4 and 5, 2010. That’s a few days from now and I hope it’s not too late to invite you to this event. I’ll be speaking on the 4th just in case you wanted to hear me talk about our favorite topic – Silver and Gold. Here are my speaking engagements:

3:00pm (Workshop)
Topic: Explaining the Minting & Coin Dealing Business; and Q and A

4:30pm (Keynote speech)
Topic: Refuting the Naysayers — this should be fun!

5:30pm (Panel)
Precious Metals, M/C Peter Grandich, Ted Butler, Jason Hommel, David Morgan, Thomas Tan, Jay Taylor.

7:00pm (Dinner)
A Special Roast for Bill Murphy of GATA

It should be a very eventful 4+ hours. So again, I strongly encourage you to at least check it out. It’s always a good experience to attend these kinds of shows. It helps give us a chance to check out different perspectives and maybe learn a few things. I think it would be an understatement if I say that I know a lot about Silver and Gold. But I’m looking forward to listening some of the guys speak. If I am excited, you should be too! Honestly, I can’t wait and I hope to see you all there.

Check it out at the Phoenix Investment Conference and Silver Summit. Please don’t forget to use promo code “SSR” when you sign up, to get a discount.

In addition, we’ll also have a booth set up. You can check out JHMINT’s booth at booth 203 (tentative). Of course, we’ll have Silver and Gold available for sale at our standard prices based off of the spot price. You can check the Silver and Gold Price for prices. So make sure to have money ready.

I hope to see you all there!

        

A lot of people have been asking me why I prefer silver over gold and other precious metals. It’s easy to understand why they would be asking something like that. After all, silver is only at about $18.78/oz right now. On the other hand, gold is at a whopping $1139.86/oz today. So if you look at it without taking anything into consideration, gold might be the better investment due to its higher prices.

Try to look beyond silver’s current low prices and try to find out why the price is so low compared to gold. Historically, you can buy an ounce of gold with 10 ounces of silver. But right now, you would need 61 ounces of silver to buy an ounce of gold. So what’s happening?

We have an issue of paper silver selling. I’m going to tell you straight out. Paper silver selling is fraud. Like I always say, if you didn’t lift it, you don’t own it. If you think your bank or brokerage house is storing the silver for you, you’re likely mistaken. The true value of silver is its honest weight and measures and it’s not some paper with some numbers on it. Paper silver selling is hyperinflation and it helps suppress the true value of real silver. Once people realizes the deception and stop “investing” in paper silver, price will go up to its historical value.

There’s also the issue of misinformation by the media. The news coverage is manipulated to make it look like that silver isn’t performing. Price is also widely manipulated. Should you be concerned? Let people like me do the investigation on what’s happening. Take advantage of the situation by buying silver while the price is still low. But do some research to arm yourself with the knowledge. Once the manipulation is exposed, prices will go up to its rightful place. That will be very bad if you don’t own any silver.

There is also the deception called the dollar. The paper money’s intrinsic value is a big fat zero! In all history of the world, every paper currency ever printed has eventually gone down to its value of zero. The Fed sure isn’t helping because they just keep on printing these pieces of paper. Its intrinsic value is nothing and it’s only a matter of time before inflation catches up and brings it down back where it belongs. When that happens, we will rely on the stored value of silver and gold.

Every day, more and more people are waking up from the deception. People will start buying silver because it’s cheaper than gold. As the paper money continues to devalue even further, more and more people will continue to buy silver. Once the currency crashes to zero, silver and gold will be the rightful money. There will be more demand than there already is. Remember, silver is also widely used in electronics and photography. It will be scarce and the prices will go up. You do the simple math. Buy silver now while the ratio is 61:1. Then compute how much your investment is going to earn once it goes back to its historical values of 10:1. It shouldn’t be that hard to compute.

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As you can probably say, Silver is my favorite of all precious metals.  Like I always say, investing in silver now will be a wise and profitable choice.  But what makes it a wise and profitable choice?  Why not Gold?  To answer that question, let’s see what gold brings to the table first.

Gold is basically money in itself.  Like what I’ve said in my Silver Stock Report, Gold is money because of its fundamental nature.  I listed down the reasons why it’s the perfect commodity in the report.  This is an excerpt of that article:

Gold is the perfect commodity for exchange for the following reasons:

• Gold is liquid and easily traded, with a narrow spread between the prices to buy and sell (about 3-5%).
• Gold is easily transportable, because it has a high value for its weight.
• Gold is money because it is divisible, you can divide it into coins, or re-melt it into bars, without destroying it.
• Also, gold is interchangeable. It can be substituted for another piece of gold with no hassle.
• Gold is also nearly impossible to counterfeit, as genuine gold is easily recognizable.
• When measured by weight, gold is easily countable, and verifiable.
• Gold is money because it is a great store of value. It is not subject to decay, rot, or rust.
• Gold has an intrinsic value, because it is rare, highly desired by the world over, and is a luxury item.

There is nothing in this world that has those same attributes.  Except for, you guessed it – Silver.  Silver has all the monetary properties of Gold plus a whole lot more.  History would tell us that the price ratio of Silver to Gold is 10:1 which means that 10 ounces of Silver can buy 1 ounce of Gold.  While today’s ratio is at about 61:1, it can and it will return to its historic value and probably more.  You may be asking how it’s supposed to return to its historic value.  You can check out my full article at:

An Introduction to Silver

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How’s everybody doing?  My name is Jason Hommel and I am the author and owner of the Silver Stock Report which is widely considered to be one of the most influential and informative newsletters in the precious metals industry today.

Have I always been into silver, gold and other precious metals?  Not my whole life.  I can consider my first success to be in the dot-com industry.  I was in my early 20’s and the Internet was in its early stages.  It was then when I recognized that advertising can be used to monetize Internet traffic.  While successful, I decided to switch my focus to an entirely different industry – precious metals.  Why? That will be for another story.

I launched SilverStockReport.com to fill the gap as far as information about precious metals is concerned.  My knowledge of how Internet advertising works helped the Silver Stock Report become what it is now – popular and widely critiqued.  But as the cliché goes, you have to practice what you preach.  So I immersed myself into anything precious metals.

In 2008, I recognized that the customer base for silver worldwide is growing with no one to satisfy that need.  So I decided to mint silver bullion products for worldwide consumption.  It helped me become one of the top dealers in North America.

Nowadays, I do a lot of speaking engagements to share my knowledge of silver and other precious metals.  I still write the Silver Stock Report newsletter which is my primary passion.  If you haven’t done so yet, you can subscribe to it at Silver Stock Report.

        

Hi everyone!  I would like to welcome you to the official blog of the
Silver Stock Report.  If you’re one of my 80,000 plus readers, then I’m sure you know what this is all about.  For those of you who are not yet familiar with Silver Stock Report, let me give you a brief background.

Silver Stock Report is one of the most influential newsletters in the precious metals industry today.  Like I’ve said, it currently has 80,000 subscribers and is still growing.  I wrote my first article in the year 2000 after seeing the need for a way to share the word about the relatively new market precious metals once was.  SilverStockReport.com was then born and instantly attracted a following worldwide.

So what can you expect from it?  You’ll usually see commentaries about two of the best investments when it comes to precious metals – silver and gold.  I usually write about the industry and market conditions from a political, economical and biblical perspective.  So you can expect to read articles that have all the bases covered.

Silver Stock Report is also an avenue for conversations.  I often get questions, comments and reactions that I share with the other readers.  It’s highly interactive that makes Silver Stock Report a superhighway for anything silver, gold or precious metals related.

If you’re a first time reader or if you missed an article, you can view past articles at Silver Stock Report.  Once again, welcome to my blog and have a great day!