One thing is certain to me: the price of silver continues to be artificially suppressed, to the point where I am long past being astonished, and still knowing that it cannot happen indefinitely. Silver is grotesquely undervalued, even relative to commodities outside fiat currencies. No rubber band has infinite elasticity, and there will come another point where silver snaps once again, in sawtooth fashion (just as it did recently, before settling back to its new 30-something levels). To me this is fantastic news, because it encourages one-way consumption (making it yet more rare in reality), while buying me nothing but more time. In fact, nothing could be better in my mind than for the muddle-heads who think silver and gold are in bubbles to appear right, even temporarily. An outright crash in silver prices, with dumping and short-term profit-taking would be wonderful, as I would not sell, and would continue to buy everything I could get my hands on. There will come a point where it is no longer in anyone's interest to artificially suppress prices, and when that happens, we will see silver's real value come bobbing to all-time new surface.