Definitely artificial prices. Glad that is the case though. Hell, if silver goes under $10 it will be awesome. It all has to do with when you buy and when you sell. There is a lot of psychological panic buying and selling, but in x years when I would want to sell, then I think the price is going to be up from these low prices. The hard part is not over-buying and not having other forms of savings. I bought some in the past that I sold for a loss. I'm glad I had it in savings, but it sucked taking a loss either way.