Which PM is out of whack?
 

It's been said a million times that in 1964 three silver dimes would buy a gallon of gas. As of today three silver dimes have a value of $2.11, I can buy gas in my town for $2.15. The current gold to silver ratio is 74:1. Statistically speaking, isn't gold too high rather than silver too low?

Re: Which PM is out of whack?
 

Maybe oil is too low. Oil production is dropping, but dont tell all those people in India and China who are dreaming of buying a car someday.

Re: Which PM is out of whack?
 

Silver is now rare.

Three silver dime should pay three good workers for a day.

So 100 to 250++ bucks a dime would be fair.

Re: Which PM is out of whack?
 

It depends on what form of silver you want. I have been selling gold and buying silver this week and my ratio is about 75, but I am not buying SAE or Maples or any of the pretty coins. For those the ratio is 54.

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All the ratio tells you is which is the better "relative" buy between gold and silver at the moment. They are two distinctly different markets. It's like comparing the potato to baseball market ratio. There are times when they move together in tandem, and other times drift off in opposite directions. Through the years I have been involved in metals, I've seen everything from the "official" 16:1 ratio on up well past the 100:1 ratio. Other than the "natural ratio" of gold to silver quantities as they are found in nature, there is no "set in stone" gold to silver ratio, and even using the natural ratio is haphazard at best due to recoverability and production issues. So is gold priced "too high" while silver is priced "too low" ? Market price tends to be a "perfect indicator" as we are seeing in the current environment........ If you are willing to pay the price, you can find/buy the metals.

"Price" is the great equalizer between supply and demand.