....so wörtlich der treffliche Mogambo Guru alias Richard Daughty in der AsiaTimes. 
Zum ersten Mal m.E. hier im Sräd, und über Silber:
".... You know that if we idiot Americans are buying silver, then surely foreigners are scooping them up, too. And sure enough, "The Royal Canadian Mint saw its sales of silver Canadian maple-leaf bullion coins rise 40% last year, to 3.5 million, according to a spokesman."
All in all, as I gather from the facts, I agree with the Wall Street Journal; silver is "growing in popularity, and some investors are betting that its value will surge as inventory shrinks."
"... And why is everybody, big and small investors alike, suddenly buying all of this silver? Could it be because silver, like gold, has always (for the last 4,000 years in a row, anyway) gone up in price when the value of the money went down? Hahaha! You bet it is! I mean, how stupid do you have to be, not to want to buy silver when, for the last 4,000 years in a row, silver has held its value as currencies depreciated? ..." 
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JF18Dj06.html
Grüsse