CNBC FastMoney - Silver Up 3% - 5/25/2011

The Fast Money traders break down the major business news of the day, including oil and silver's rise.



it's kind of interesting that visa people have some confidence in, yet the overall market, they continue to hedge themselves because they're not trusting the s&p. i think is that's the toughest part right now. we're trying to figure out which way is the break out because it does feel like one is coming right now. we do want to address the silver trade today, because it was a very volatile one. it was up by more than 3% on the slv, the etf that tracks the physical commodity. and after the very volatile trade that we' seen over the past four week, is it a surprise we're seeing silver climb back up here? we have david hightower, he said $50 by year's end. once again, $50 by year's end. brian talked about it last night. silver has been funny. if you go back and look since may 5, the silver market never really traded lower than that. i do believe it's going to catch people off-guard on the move to 50. i think again, i think silver has sufficiently scared enough people awra where now the time is to be long the silver market. it just feels like it's got another leg to it. do we need to see the same amount of speculation return in order to approach $50, though, an ounce? no, absolutely not. and i think the absence of that speculation will be one of the reasons why the prices -- i think a lot of people look at the initial stages of may and they're somewhat fearful of being in the silver trade. as silver proves itself again in terms of price later is this year, gets above 40, gets above 45, you're going to have people who were shaken out that are going to have to chase silver at much higher price levels. i get the sense that silver was a ma raj raleily for a lot people. silver was going bananas when the real metals were already starting to hit the skids. to me, i feel like silvl have probably seen its high for the year. if anything, i still like gold versus silver. if you look at that ratio, and we said it yesterday,
MAKE SURE YOU GET PHYSICAL SILVER IN YOUR OWN POSSESSION. Don't Buy SLV, or Futures or Pooled Accounts or any other BS paper silver product .Remember anything on paper is worth the paper it is written on. Go Long Stay long the bull market have even started yet

Bob Chapman : do not buy any Real Estate

Bob Chapman - Financial Survival (!!!) - 05-25-2011
Bob Chapman : do not own any currencies except what you need to live on , do not own any real estate unless there is some special reason why you have to , do not buy any real estate for a minimum of two and a half to three years and that might be the bottom , the worse than that is that we do not how long before it hits the bottom it could be years 8 years , 20 years who knows and you would be stuck with an illiquid asset you do not want to buy anything today , you are lucky if you do not have a house unless it is fully paid , if you have extra money after you bought dehydrated food, buy gold and silver coins ...

Utah, returns to Gold Standard

The State of Utah, returns to Gold Standard ,the US $ is only backed by faith and lately there isnt much left, The Constitution called for Gold & Silver coins because the paper certificate scam is nothing new to history.people will trade with 1/10th ounce coins not 1 full ounce :) It's freedom because getting paid in gold has value while government paper enslaves as it cost money to print it. We don't need to end the welfare state. Just end the FED and the wellfare state will end itself.




As far as I can tell the law legalizes US federal minted gold and silver coins as "legal tender", and removes state capital gains tax and sales tax when they are sold / purchased using fiat. The tax provisions are all good, but since the face value of a PM coin is a tiny fraction of its melt value why would anyone use it as legal tender, i.e. exchange it based on it's face value?