Buying And Owning Silver Part 1: Arguments For Silver Ownership

In this series of articles I give arguments for owning silver. In writing this series I hope to help my audience understand silver ownership on three levels: (1) the theoretical - the reasons for silver ownership, (2) the quantitative - the amount of silver one should hold, and (3) the qualitative - how one should own silver.

This series of articles follows my two article series on gold ownership, found below:

    Buying and Owning Gold Part 1: Arguments for Gold Ownership
    Buying and Owning Gold Part 2: Specific Investments in Gold

Silver is especially attractive because it functions as a precious metal in that maintains its value over long periods of time. Yet it is also an industrial metal that is consumed, and demand for silver by producers of computers, mobile devices, photovoltaic cells, and water purification systems is rising rapidly.

Read more: SeekingAlpha.com, 27 February 2013