A good way to look at gold is “flight capital.”
The Vietnamese refugees who arrived in 1975 landed on their feet because they had gold sewn into their clothes. You can’t sew a fortune in ammo or (God help me) chicken feed into the hems of your clothing.
If you needed to flee in a Cessna, would you rather all your extra wealth (after food, guns, ammo etc) be stored in the form of crates of ammo, or gold coins?
The “normalcy bias” is so strong in this country, even on Free Republic, that many otherwise-intelligent people simply rule out the chance they might ever have to flee their homes.
History teaches them NOTHING. Only the 2X4 over the head of reality will teach them.
“(God help me) chicken feed into the hems of your clothing.”
lol. Ya just know some smartypants will have an answer to that one when you wrote it!
The “normalcy bias” is so strong in this country, even on Free Republic, that many otherwise-intelligent people simply rule out the chance they might ever have to flee their homes.