Canadian Silver Maples (Picture credit: lecho0047 from pixabay.com) Gold had recently hit an all-time high of USD 2,190-ish due to the expectations of a cut of US interest rates coming soon. To explain further, a cut in the rates would bring down the demand of the USD, and gold, being typically seen as an USD substitute and non-yielding asset, would go up in value (see my post here for the relationship between gold and USD). With this, naturally its counterpart silver would be expected to go on an all-time high soon, yet the current price of the grey metal was nowhere near its two zenith points back in 1980 and 2011. The first high was on 18 Jan 1980, when it traded around USD 49.45 per ounce (oz), and that was the result of market cornering by the Hunt brothers (article of this story under the Reference section below), so this was not due to pure economic reasons. The second high...