Silver Tests $33 -- For the First Time In a Decade

Has it really been that long?

The standard silver pitch is that when gold goes up, stackers note the immense number of silver coins they can get for the price of a single gold Krugerand or Maple Leaf. Then they proceed to pile into the cheaper metal, sending its price up by multiples of gold’s subsequent percentage gains.

But this time around, gold rose for several years without lig…