Joe Roseman: Serious about silver

COMMODITIES

Silver has to be one of the most poorly-researched industrial metals.

Thanks to its historical role as a poor man’s gold and also courtesy of its dramatic decline in use in photography, silver gets seen as neither a precious metal nor an industrial metal. Maybe it is because of its schizophrenic existence that leads to it falling off the radar of mainstream commodity analysts. In my view, that is an opportunity. Either way, silver does not receive the attention that it merits. In my book, SWAG – Alternative Investments for the Coming Decade, Silver stands for the S in SWAG. In considering the acronym, I could have used Stamps or some other physical asse...