>Precious metals are not for collapse, they are for major currency events, and more general hedge to stonks. They are pointless for an individual, you pay through the nose to trade a physical asset. Look at what's happening now, there is inflation, so the rich are buying tangible assets like land and rentals, the gold price fell after Biden was elected. Long term, gold is crap as a hedge, it's like a 1.1% return? Bonds and stocks have always done better. It's a niche commodity that is over supplied, and it's only real point is during a theoretical collapse where money is suddenly worthless but there a fictitious person who suddenly wants to buy all your gold and is happy to drive out to the woods with you and dig it up...? It's ludicrous. Buy a big propane/diesel tank instead, bitcoin, land, inflation-indexed bonds. Buy oil commodities, if inflation goes up so does oil, same with supermarket stocks, people will need to eat regardless of market conditions. Gold is a hedge for corporations/countries, not Joe Soap in the Ozarks