>>60942348
>Is now a bad time to start investing silver? Looks to me like we're at the peak, and in 5 years it'll drop again.
Your question contains an implicit premise that the dollar is stable.

Do you expect that the US government will elimiate their deficit, run a budget surplus and pay off their national debt?

If not, the only alternative is printing. Over time the number of dollars approaches infinity, the value of dollars approaches zero. The value of the US Federal Reserve Note (what you might call a dollar) has dropped more than 10% so far THIS YEAR.