Despite the recession silver is in strong demand. This is hardly surpirsing, in turbulent times there is traditionally a move by shrewd investors to purchase those things that have intrinsic value, such as gold, silver and jewellery. Gold and silver are relatively easy to buy and sell and tend to hold their value.

A recent article in The Daily Telegraph confirms the strong demand for silver.

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Gold tends to hold real value
As governments devalue their currencies by 'qunatitative easing', which is nothing more than a fancy name for printing money, one commodity tends to hold its real value, gold. If you need proof just look at the price of gold over the last 50 years. (The UK has in effect printed £170 200 billion this year)