[SkyPilot]

When it's all said and done .... what does a man really need to live and stay alive? Food and shelter. Everything else just makes a boring, get up, go to work .. (grow/hunt for food, gather/make fuel for heat .. etc), eat and sleep existence a little more interesting.

I have to agree.

Several traders and economists were on a TV show recently (Russian sponsored?) and were talking about the influx in the precious metals market.

While a good investment, is it really what you need to survive if there are price controls, hyper-inflation, food shortages, a fuel crisis, and a huge upswing in riots and crime caused by social and economic collapse?

What are people going to do, chip off little bits of their gold bars stored in their basement safes?

I actually think black market trading will be done more in other currency (Euros, Swiss Francs), and in commodities like cigarettes, alcohol, ammunition, and other food stuffs.

[Red in Blue PA]

Invest in AMMO!

It can be traded should oenerous laws ever pass or civil strife come to fruition. (more and more likely on BOTH counts)

Additionally, you can use it in defense of you and your loved ones. (also, more likely)

[jiggyboy]

What are people going to do, chip off little bits of their gold bars stored in their basement safes?

That was common 'currency' in Weimar Germany.

[blam]

"I actually think black market trading will be done more in other currency (Euros, Swiss Francs), and in commodities like cigarettes, alcohol, ammunition, and other food stuffs. "

I'm betting on coffee, chocolate, sugar and old US silver coins.