{"id":64816,"date":"2023-01-21T12:55:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64816"},"modified":"2023-01-21T12:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T17:55:27","slug":"gold-or-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64816","title":{"rendered":"Gold Or Silver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rubino.substack.com\/p\/gold-or-silver?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Gold Or Silver?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>You want both, obviously, but how much of each and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>At first glance, gold and silver seem pretty fungible. They\u2019re both hypnotically pretty. Their prices tend to rise and fall according to the same financial\/political forces. They\u2019re both seen as real money by a tiny (very wise) fraction of the population and as atavistic relics by the vast, ignorant majority. And \u2013 most important \u2013 they will both preserve their owners\u2019 purchasing power when today\u2019s fiat currencies evaporate like the fever dreams they always were.<\/p>\n<p>So you definitely want some (and maybe a lot) of each. But gold and silver are not identical. They have different strengths and weaknesses in various \u201cmonetary reset\u201d scenarios. And their prices don\u2019t move in lockstep. Sometimes one is cheap relative to the other.<\/p>\n<p>So how much of each should we own now, and how quickly should we plan to load up the truck? The answer is different for each person, but a few things are generally true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The gold\/silver ratio<br \/>\n<\/strong>The relative prices of gold and silver tend to fluctuate within a broad but discernable range. This gold\/silver ratio is expressed as the number of ounces of silver it takes to buy an ounce of gold and tends to rise and fall along with the emotional state of precious metals investors. When those investors don\u2019t foresee imminent inflation or other monetary disruptions, they gravitate towards gold\u2019s safety and stability, and shy away from silver\u2019s volatility. Gold\u2019s price rises relative to silver\u2019s, producing a high gold\/silver ratio.<\/p>\n<p>When investors expect rising inflation or other kinds of currency instability, they buy precious metals generally, but gravitate towards silver\u2019s greater upside potential. Gold and silver both rise but the gold\/silver ratio falls as buyers push silver\u2019s price up more quickly than gold\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Or Silver? You want both, obviously, but how much of each and why? At first glance, gold and silver seem pretty fungible. They\u2019re both hypnotically pretty. Their prices tend to rise and fall according to the same financial\/political forces. They\u2019re both seen as real money by a tiny (very wise) fraction of the population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[181,374,7544,647,728,730],"class_list":["post-64816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-crisis","tag-gold","tag-john-rubino","tag-precious-metals","tag-shtf","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64817,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64816\/revisions\/64817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}