And the reason is in the post...it can act as BOTH, where silver mimics inflation.
Gold always has an element of deflation which when filtered out against gold gives direction to price movement.
A bunch of years back Ben B. said that no one could figure out why gold does what it does. Being right on that I'd add it only becomes meaningful when compared to silver...not lumber.
Both are PM's where lumber is used for construction, which can boom and bubble in a deflationary CB induced bubble.
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