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BUY PHYSICAL GOLD.

Seriously, I know it's not a great investment, in terms of annual return, but when they pull what's coming next all of your digital records will be gone, which means your checking & savings account will be gone.

Look up "digital covid Klaus Schwab", or watch the video from The Ice Age Farmer from a couple months back. You will come to the same conclusion.

The point is that the only assets us plebs will continue to own are the ones we can hold in our hands.

Physical gold is your hedge against this nightmare; something you can bring with you to the other side.

Disclaimer: this is not investment advice.

BUY PHYSICAL GOLD. Seriously, I know it's not a great investment, in terms of annual return, but when they pull what's coming next all of your digital records will be gone, which means your checking & savings account will be gone. Look up "digital covid Klaus Schwab", or watch the video from The Ice Age Farmer from a couple months back. You will come to the same conclusion. The point is that the only assets us plebs will continue to own are the ones we can hold in our hands. Physical gold is your hedge against this nightmare; something you can bring with you to the other side. Disclaimer: this is not investment advice.

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I own both physical gold and silver bullion coins. Government mint issue. It is not an investment. Insurance is a more accurate description.

A hedge against fiat collapse, or civil collapse, which is very nearly the same thing from an economic point of view.

About 1% of your portfolio is adequate for this purpose. The odds of collapse are slim, but not none. Just like the odds of a fire in your house. Unlikely, but they do happen. So you buy a smoke alarm, right?

History has shown repeatedly the proven value of these metals in collapse scenarios. People are always ready to trade real goods and services for them, even in a barter economy. Wedding rings often become the new currency.

The rest of your money should go to other investments, like land and lead.

If you want to play gold and silver as an investment, you do that with an ETF, or buying and selling mining shares, basically another form of paper / electronic financial instrument. It's really just another kind of fiat.

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I agree, I think will see a near erasing of the value of the currency, stocks being sold off, business collapsing. Not sure about crypto though but I would certainly put my money in metals and hold on to it and sell once things get back to normal.

Only concern I have is if the government makes having physical metals illegal.

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Yep, that NJ (I think) gym owner who had $165k stolen out of his bank account by the government hopefully learned this lesson. Printing trillions has consequences

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Why the push for gold over silver? Say the world goes to hell and you need to trade something for food. Would you rather trade 1 of silver that you bought for $30 or 1 oz of gold that you bought for $1,600?

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Ideally you want to buy both.

What I'm going to do is do approx 2/3 gold and 1/3 silver so I do have the ability to trade but most of my wealth is in a manageable package.

I rather carry 10 coins vs 1000 coins.

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Seems this wont be a problem for a guy with only 10-50oz of silver. Sounds like your collection is over the poverty line, not everyone has this problem.

The amount some spend on physical orders is often limited, mine is. Got a gram of gold, 50 bux a while back. Lots more silver, just more accessible without breaking a payday.

If we end up bartering with metals, I suspect I wont want many rando npcs from that new world, knowing I have more than a few small bits around. ie: same reason I dont pay with $100 bills at the liquor store (if I drank).

Bury 1000 coins, carry 3.

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I know it's not a great investment, in terms of annual return

It has more than doubled in value, on average, every year for the last 50 years. And that’s only going to increase at this point. What?

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Wait, what... if gold doubled in value every year for 50 years, if it had started at $0.01/oz, it would now be worth 11,258,999,068,426.24/oz.

Gold has almost doubled in value over the past 10 years, which would be about a 7% return.