Time for AU and AG

[Timelord]

I much agree with all in your post!. I am not a pacifist dreamer and not much different from yourself in views. I was just theorising on mid to long term PSHTF scenarios. Yes it went a bit off the original thread. Probably because I see Au & Ag as being only any use in a PSHTF world and then personally I would not rate them much. I think you are more likely to bring trouble down on yourself having that type of wealth about you. A subsistance economy - however sparse that is - does not have much use for silver & gold, Those with the precious metals may find themselves lynched for trying to reintroduce old corrupted values. People will be far too busy & concerned with just surviving through the seasons to worry about stockpiling precious metals. We live in a world of stuff and much of it will be available to adapt as we need. In fact there will be such an oversupply of material objects for quite a while, that money/gold/silver etc will have no real value in exchange for it. The only way precious metals will be any use is if there is only a partial collapse and our present ideology survives. The big boys are buying up precious metals & commodities as a way to get their wealth out of paper and into tangible assets. landbanking is another one of those. They have so much of the paper stuff that they have no real alternatives. They are also gambling on only a wobble or at worst a partial collapse. Anything more and it will only be worth the memories of those that are still around and then again thay will have far more important things to think about by then. In this case it would be quite a long while before a commodity exchange system would be feasible again. regards, TL.