Us Currency Silver Certificate

Gold and silver seem to be all the rage lately. Many investors, however, are skeptical about it because they fear that they may be getting in at the height of the bubble.

Such a bubble occurred with tech stocks in the late '90s into 2001, and another came in 1637 with tulip bulbs. According to Investopedia.com's "Market Crashes: The Tulip and Bulb Craze," this bubble was so out of control that investors were purchasing tulips for substantially more than most people made in a year.

After a period of excitement, it may have dawned on investors that a tulip is a flower. Will this also happen with gold and silver? Will people realize that they are soft metals mined from the ground no differently than aluminum and copper? And if not, why?