Silver Institute is an entity well established in the silver environment. It serves as one of the best and detailed sources of demand/supply and general data on white metal, being important statistical source of information for community and analysts. But apart of that, what exactly is Silver Institute?

Starting 2025, silver became more expensive in Poland. However, this happened not in the way we would like, but through the implementation of 23% VAT. And there has also been a lot of recent talk about trade tariffs. Does this mean that investing in silver has just become unprofitable? Quite the contrary, as we will try to prove in this analysis.

This is a story of past silver purchase that cornered Comex participants. Between 1997 – 1998, Warren Buffett purchased 4.000 t. in weight of silver, which eventually had been sold by 2006. And as kind reader might expect, there is more behind a story than often is being considered as simple purchase-hold-sell transaction.

Today we’ll try to answer question about the size of the precious metals market. This is a legitimate question in the context of recent price increases, but at the same time it should give esteemed readers some perspective and scale of comparison against other asset classes.