The Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield is an informed opinion article weighing in at 11,429 words, 1127 lines and a mind boggling 23 pages. According to the author his “monster” has started to cause some waves out there.

Silver Shield's massive article covers all of the reasons why you should sell every asset you have right now and buy silver. It has been named “Article of the Week” at Silver Bear Cafe and has been translated into 6 languages in less than a week.

However if you don’t have the time or inclination to read 11,429 words, 1127 lines and 23 pages, I offer an essay by Robert Singer released December 13, 2008,
Silver, But No Silver Lining, barely 1,050 words, 81 lines and 2 pages.

Silver, But No Silver Lining
December 13, 2008
By: Robert Singer

The end of our consumer society is on the horizon, which should be no surprise to anyone who took Economics 101. Do we really expect to spend our way out of this mess by buying and selling each other useless cheap stuff from China?

As the financial collapse gathers steam, gold and silver oracles like Butler, Friedman, Morgan and Turk who have been predicting for years the launch of the price of silver to the moon will see their prophecy fulfilled, but a celebration is not in order.

Being wealthy during the last 60 years of unprecedented prosperity at the expense of the Third World and the environment is one thing, but profiting from a bull market in silver when millions of hungry Americans are living in tent-cities next door is quite another.

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