The No. 1 reason the price of silver will rise

By David Galland in Casey’s Daily Dispatch:

Last month, gold broke into new record territory – reaching an all-time high of $1,387 on October 14.

A new record in nominal terms, that is. To top the previous high in inflation-adjusted dollars, gold will have to approximately double from there.

Silver, however, has barely made it halfway back to its prior nominal high of $49.45 an ounce, achieved on January 21, 1980. In order to break into new territory in inflation-adjusted dollars (using the same CPI calculation methodology used in 1980), silver would have to rise to over $250 an ounce – more than 10 times where it is today.

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