Silver Is Going To Pop.....then What?

All I can say is that if anybody actually knew what silver or gold were going to do,they would be too rich to be posting about it on here.

Will that be the time to buy gold with silver?

Some of the answers are:
Batteries
Electronics
Medical Applications
Solar Energy

There are quite a few other uses too which accounts for part of the price increase. We're not running out, but there are more uses for silver than there are for gold.

Well, according to the web site of The Silver Institute:

Electric power drives the world's industry; its distribution depends upon silver contacts in switches and circuit breakers for efficient control. Silver is used in switches from 3 volts at less than 1 ampere to massive switches and circuit breakers which make and break 500,000 volts at 15,000 amperes. In the latter contacts, the silver is combined with tungsten, molybdenum, or other refractory metals.

Silver contacts in membrane switch panels are now standard in control panels for machinery, chemical industry processes, railway traffic controls and elevator call buttons, to name a few.

Silver oxide / zinc batteries, which have twice the electrical capacity of lead-acid batteries of the same size, have long found extensive use by television crews carrying portable battery packs, in aircraft, and in submersibles where weight is critical. Silver has long been known for its unrivaled performance at high temperatures; it is the only battery, for instance, that can provide reliable power for instrumentation at the high temperatures found at the bottom of oil wells.

Radiography, the use of photographic film to record the internal condition of materials, including stainless steel castings, is the major non-destructive evaluation technique for the discovery of structural fatigue and flaws.

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And, lest we forget, high resolution photography still uses film to achieve great results. The use of silver in photography is less than it used to be but it is still about 15% of the 900 million or so ounces of silver produced annually. [according to Wikipedia]

The thing that is driving commodity prices generally vs. the U.S. dollar, is the 14 trillion dollar debt. That's about $70,000 per head of population. The interest bill on that at 5% is about $70 per week per head.

Most countries around the World have a national debt. What I don't understand is:
Why can't the national debts across all nations be cross cancelled?

Industrial use of silver is only one component of demand for silver. The rise in silver prices is also driven by investing & speculating. I don't have the figures in front of me but it's my understanding that industrial demand is nowhere near 100% of mine production & that any "shortage" is created by other factors. There is certainly some price level that indutsrial demand will support, but if investors/speculators move on there will be a significant drop.

Silver is trading below $40 again. Mostly a mental threshold so far and not significant.....yet