{"id":913,"date":"2010-01-21T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T10:58:23","slug":"silver-as-money-give-me-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themorganreport.com\/blog\/silver-as-money-give-me-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver as Money? Give Me a Break!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Jeffries Interviews David Morgan of Silver-Investor.com.<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Tom Jeffries<\/strong>:\u00a0 David Morgan is editor and publisher of <em>The Morgan Report<\/em>. Full disclosure: it is my favorite publication. David is one of the leading experts on silver in the world. The Web site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\" target=\"_self\">silver-investor.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Jeffries<\/strong>:\u00a0 Everybody\u2019s talking about gold\u2019s place in the \u201cnew world order.\u201d Woo! Let\u2019s not get spooky, folks. How would you expect silver to act in the event of a world oligopoly, David?\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>David Morgan<\/strong>:\u00a0 I think that, as I wrote so many years ago in <em>Silver Investing Rules<\/em>, no one likes to be a prophet of doom, but silver is the money of last resort, and I still believe that. However, gold certainly has a higher monetary aspect to it as basically a store of wealth, a store of value, and a safe haven. Silver has those qualities because it\u2019s an industrial metal as well.<br \/>\nBut from a practical perspective, silver is the one that you\u2019d be actually using in times of crisis. Not that you wouldn\u2019t use gold, but if something happened and you needed to get a loaf of bread, a gallon of gas, pay rent, or keep your landlord off your back, and you had some silver coins, that would be a lot more advantageous to you than a gold bar, which would be pretty hard to divide up and pay your landlord or whatever.<br \/>\nSo silver really has been money in more places for longer periods of time than gold has, and whenever I make that statement it seems to get some people upset, but it\u2019s a fact, it can\u2019t be disputed. Through all of recorded history it (silver) has <em>far<\/em> more functionality as money than gold does.<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Jeffries<\/strong>:\u00a0 Okay. I\u2019m playing devil\u2019s advocate for a second here with you, David. I guess that begs the question, and maybe you can explain, what central banks and those wily governments out there are going to do to resist the allure of silver for the average investor? As a money alternative?<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Morgan<\/strong>:\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s a great question, Tom, and it\u2019s a tough one. To really get an in-depth answer to that question you should go to our Web site, silver-investor.com, and go in the archives section and read everything Charles Savoie has written for the last decade.<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Jeffries<\/strong>:\u00a0 Yes, okay; I have read his work he has provided a massive amount through the years.<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Morgan<\/strong>:\u00a0 Readers get an eye-opener on how important silver is as money, what the central banks really think of it through history, and why they basically demonized and demonetized silver as their main concern so many years ago, hundreds of years ago, really. You\u2019re looking back to, say, the Crime of 1873, 120-130 years or so ago.<br \/>\nAnd once that was accomplished, you went to the gold-only path. And then you had a monetary metal that was much easier to control because the banks had most of the gold anyway. So if the banking community and financiers got rid of silver, you didn\u2019t have a problem with the people (or the peons and underlings, as the bankers view us), and you just had gold, and they owned it, so they could make the rules.<br \/>\nAnd as you know Tom, and very few do, <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em> was basically a metaphor for going to the gold-only standard. There\u2019s a gentleman, whose name I can\u2019t recall, who wrote an article that\u2019s on the Gold-Eagle Web site about how the gold-only standard eventually leads to the fiat system, but when you have bi-metalism, which is where you have both gold and silver circulating freely, not necessarily a fixed ratio by government but what the market could decide, you have a much freer and safer system.<br \/>\nYou have a <em>lot<\/em> more stability in the system than you have on a gold-only standard, but very few people know that, very few people believe it, very few people study it. And if this is the government of the United States, supposedly of the people, for the people, and by the people, you should look at what <em>the<\/em><em> people<\/em> use as money and why they use it.<br \/>\nOf course I take that perspective and because of that, I\u2019m very, <em>very<\/em> biased toward silver being not only a monetary metal but also probably the most high-tech industrial metal required for today\u2019s world.<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Jeffries<\/strong>:\u00a0 I was shocked, and I don\u2019t know why this was so obvious, standing right in front of my face, when I found out that Dorothy\u2019s shoes were originally silver in <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em> and then I realized what Oz is short for ounce . . . I don\u2019t know where I was with that one! <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, not time for that right now, but do some digging. <em>Web of Debt<\/em>, a book by Ellen Hodgson Brown, explains it very well.<br \/>\nDavid\u2019s written about this, it\u2019s just fascinating. Holy Williams Jennings Bryan, Batman! The old Latin phrase comes to mind, talking about these ETFs and banks and central banks and that stuff, <em>Cui Bono<\/em>. \u201cWho benefits?\u201d in Latin. So, is this Goldman Sachs or is this one of the big guys behind the curtain (as in <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>) playing these ETFs or what\u2019s going on?<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Morgan<\/strong>:\u00a0 It\u2019s the banks. From my perspective, if you look at the Barclay\u2019s Silver Trust, it\u2019s in London. When Buffett bought 129.7 million ounces of fine silver off the COMEX, once he received the silver it ended up in London.<br \/>\nThen Buffett sells his silver and then the silver ETF arises in London, so now Barclay\u2019s bank has some control of a great quantity of silver. Just look at the two best studies on the silver market, depending on which one you choose. I\u2019m going to choose the CPM Group (even though I\u2019m very close to the Silver Institute). In any event, you\u2019re looking at maybe 500-600 million ounces of fine silver in 1,000-ounce bar form. So, the iShares has almost 300 million, which means they have three-fifths, or 60 percent, of the world\u2019s silver supply sitting in their bank more or less. Which is a pretty healthy amount, and then if you subtract the COMEX out of that, they\u2019ve got most of it. In fact, they do have most of it, not counting COMEX, obviously, but the point is that the banks now\u2014or <em>a<\/em> bank, Barclay\u2019s\u2014has silver in their bank again, which is something that they haven\u2019t had up until the creation of the ETF.<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Jeffries<\/strong>:\u00a0 Tell me something about the Silver Summit in Spokane.<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Morgan<\/strong>:\u00a0 I did a Webinar with Hugo Salinas Price in Mexico and he actually asked that I would be the interviewer, which I consider to be an honor. I met him in person many years ago.<br \/>\nMost people don\u2019t know that Hugo Salinas Price has started a foundation (I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s technically a foundation, but a group) that is looking into using silver side-by-side with the Mexican peso, and this story has been out there for a very long time. It recently got shot down by, guess who, the central banks in Mexico. But the idea to put money into circulation just in one nation-state alone has huge significance, and as Hugo himself said (I\u2019m paraphrasing), even if it doesn\u2019t happen the <em>idea<\/em> of it happening has a lot of power, because people will realize honest money works!<br \/>\nIn the United States, some people are two paychecks or three paychecks away from bankruptcy, thus gold is the last thing on their mind as far as what they can afford. But they certainly could afford some silver, so I think you\u2019re going to see silver really, really take off once we get near the end of this great credit debacle that we\u2019re now experiencing. Again, though, I want to caution everybody: I don\u2019t see that happening in 2009. I\u2019m looking for the final wrap-up in this thing to happen somewhere around the 2012 timeframe.<br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Jeffries<\/strong>:\u00a0 Just an amazing time we live in. By the way, I know David\u2019s a very busy guy but he\u2019s kind enough to say he will answer questions. If you\u2019ve got a reasonable question send it along to info@howestreet.com, select David Morgan, and we\u2019ll send it along to David.<br \/>\nIf he has the time he\u2019ll respond to it on his weekly podcast on HoweStreet.com. And if you\u2019re wondering about the Silver Summit in Idaho, just Google it; you\u2019ll see David is joined by a lot of top people, including the eminent Hugo Salinas Price.<br \/>\nComments made on goldradio.fm are an expression of opinion only and should not be construed in any matter whatsoever as recommendations to buy or sell any financial instrument at any time. Available online at www.goldradio.fm, goldradio.fm is a production of Howe Street Media, Inc.<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nMr. Morgan has followed the silver market for more than 30 years. He wrote the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettheskinnyonsilver.com\/\">Get the Skinny on Silver Investing<\/a>. Much of his Web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/\">Silver-Investor.com<\/a>, is devoted to education about the precious metals; it is both a free site and does<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Jeffries Interviews David Morgan of Silver-Investor.com. \u00a0 Tom Jeffries:\u00a0 David Morgan is editor and publisher of The Morgan Report. Full disclosure: it is my favorite publication. David is one of the leading experts on silver in the world. The Web site is silver-investor.com. 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