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We're currently holding an excessive amount of cash. I'm looking for alternative places to park this which remain moderately liquid (accessible within a year), hedge against inflation better than fiat (lol), dont carry significant transaction costs (e.g. shoving kilos of precious metals in the basement is going to cost at least 1% buying AND selling), and isnt exposing us to excessive interest rate risk (I fully expect interest rates on sovereign debt to go to the fricking moon due to inflation and tank the values of current comically low interest bonds).

Any suggestions? This would not be an investment, just hedging inflation due to an excessive amount of cash.

We're currently holding an excessive amount of cash. I'm looking for alternative places to park this which remain moderately liquid (accessible within a year), hedge against inflation better than fiat (lol), dont carry significant transaction costs (e.g. shoving kilos of precious metals in the basement is going to cost at least 1% buying AND selling), and isnt exposing us to excessive interest rate risk (I fully expect interest rates on sovereign debt to go to the fricking moon due to inflation and tank the values of current comically low interest bonds). Any suggestions? This would not be an investment, just hedging inflation due to an excessive amount of cash.

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If the SHTF big time, 15-20% would exceed portability requirements. Heck, even bugging out with a couple thousand rounds gets problematic from a weight perspective never mind the comically large bags of precious metals you suggest.

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Sounds like you have very good problems to have. Lol!

Gold is about $32K per pound. A thousand rounds would be 62.5lbs and worth $2M*** in today's dollars***. When/if gold skyrockets to $15K/oz, that 1000 rounds becomes $15M in future dollars.

Some invest in diamonds for portability, but JEWels are not my thing.

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I was thinking more along the lines of firearm rounds. I keep some precious metal rounds on hand, but if SHTF to the degree where crypto is unusable...that's a Mad Max motorcycle gang dystopia. I dont foresee a lot of gold/silver purchases in a scenario like that. At that point it's down to "my gang invested in ammo crates, your gang did not, thank you for "donating" your food to us".

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Just considering ammo, investing in a reloading setup, lead bullets, brass cleaner, gunpowder, primers ... Along with a couple thousand rounds and you can clean, resize, refill the spent rounds as they get spent. A self replenishing 2000 round stockpile (or whatever number you feel comfortable with. Reloading ammo is fun, you can experiment. I believe you can usually reload new cases 3-4 times without concern. Gold/silver would be for barter and trade in the Mad Max world, and especially the new organized world thereafter.