If things were going to stay the same as they have been for the last 110 years, than I think you would all be right and Gold/silver should only be a small part of your investments, long term merely as a hedge and nothing more.

Fact is you are all wrong, and things are about to dramatically change, silver/gold is no longer going to be artificially manipulated with paper shares. Paper shares and the Comex's are going away, they are going to have a huge delivery failure on contracts which will expose the manipulation and stop it.

Gold will destroy the FED and once that happens everything is going to change, revaluation of everything with Gold/Silver being the benchmark.

The gold backed yuan, it did not live up to the hype mainly because the Dollar is still king, you can still buy gold with dollars and until that stops Gold cant see its true value.

More than anything, watching the manipulation stop with Gold and Silver tells you that the Dollar is dying, loosing its ability to control.