The relationship that I know of between Gold and Silver is more philosophical than anything else.

Both metals are regarded as “gods metals” both metals are regarded by the founding fathers as essential to sound money policies.

Both metals for thousands of years have served as tokens of exchange, and “stores of value.”

One difference is that gold was widely used as adornment and “jewelry” in ancient civilizations.

Those are a few of the relationships that I’m aware of.

I have both gold and silver, and look at them independently until somebody can establish a causal relationship between the two. If there is a truly causal relationship, that’d be useful information.

what are some more reasons for buying silver? Go to the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26sToKBwB04

I concur, but, there again, the question is Which Metal is in the drivers seat.. Does Gold drive Silver, or does Silver drive Gold.

I would say that although silver is a depleting metal, in industry, that it’s price is more driven as “a commodity”, where Gold on the other hand is much more speculative.

Therefore, I’d say, that silver is less driven by speculators and conspiracy theorists, than gold.

Therefore, I’d say that the price of silver is the “real driver” and not necessarily gold.

Therefore, put a 17:1 ratio, but base it on the price of silver as the driver, and that puts the price of gold at $297/oz.

But, now that things are settelling down in the markets, and the shake outs are at least known and not “shocking” the market on a daily basis, as things have been over the last several months, then I think the more historic ratio is going to come back into the marketplace.. ie. 50:1

In that case, with silver at $17.5 gold should be about $875… taaadaaaahhhh

Good luck..