[TheRealThing]

Gold and silver will always have value because they can be converted into stable currencies or used to buy goods on the black markets that arise when a nation's official currency becomes worthless.

For those who have never seen them, it is worth searching for images of Germans hauling their money in wheelbarrows and using it as wallpaper in the 1920s. There is no reason to believe that the same thing cannot happen here.

I certainly see your point. I was thinking the economic collapse looming on the horizon would be global and not just national. Every time a Greece or a Portugal bellies up the machinery gets more fowled and the bailouts more burdensome for the global economies. If we go down, there is no real basis for comparison that one could use to describe such a thing.