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Silver Major Marco Catalysts
- Silver has many essential applications for the environment. By substituting our need for unforgiving chemicals and dropping the quantity of energy needed, silver helps decrease the size of our environmental "footprint".
- A major use of silver is in green technologies. It plays a major role in solar energy production. Silver is the main ingredient in the solar panels used to transform natural sunlight into power. It is also used to reflect light to run generators. Silver added to windows reduces up to 95% of the sunlight transmitted indoors cutting energy costs.
- Silver is increasingly used in nanotechnology. Silver acts as a sterilizer when added to fabrics, appliances, carpets and air purifiers. It kills harmful bacteria that otherwise would have had to be treated with harsh chemicals. Silver is a major victory for green technology by reducing our reliance on potentially toxic substances.
- As fiat currencies continue to devalue, precisions metals will march higher in value. No fiat currency in history has survived to date. It's a race to the bottom for the world's central banks as they continue to one up each other's quantitative easing efforts.
- Recently many central banks of emerging markets lowered their interest rates, consequently lowering the cost of borrowing. In most cases inflation will outstrip the yield on savings, creating negative real interest rates. Thus, investors will take flight to precious metals and protect their wealth from devaluation.
- Silver is incredibly under-owned by institutions relative to historic levels and relative to differing asset classes.
- The long-term trend of the U.S. dollar is lower. Conversely, the long term trend for silver is up. As the dollar's value continues to dwindle and worldwide economies recover, investor focus will swing from deflation to inflation which bodes well for silver.
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