Buying Gold/Silver - Do you do it?

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MacFromOK

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In SHTF paper money won’t be worth ****.
I don't necessarily agree. We'd have to have some form of currency to exchange. Do you actually think everyone would immediately set their money on fire?

I wouldn't.

"Backed by the Federal government" has little meaning when there's no alternative. Our paper currency is largely faith-based already.

In the grand scheme of things, folks with real gold/silver on hand will be a minute percentage (and possibly in great peril because of it). But even the average Joe has some idea of what a US dollar can buy.

Sheesh, some of the earliest currencies on record were stones and seashells (backed by nothing whatsoever).

Just my two cents. :drunk2:

EDIT: Btw, paper money has a built-in intrinsic value because of the effort required to obtain it. ;)
 

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Dodged the question.

Looks like you dodged the answer.

Now, if you question had been "when in the United States," you might be right, but my ancestors could have certainly told you stories of what went on in the Depression here in the U.S.

I remember my father-in-law telling me of work sites during that time. There would be a line of guys standing around near the foreman's hut/office/whatever. In the work area, guys would be using shovels to throw dirt into the bed of a truck. When one truck got full, it pulled out and another backed in. The time of the trucks doing those maneuvers were the only breaks the workers got from shoveling.

If a man stopped and leaned on his shovel while a truck was in place for loading, he was fired on the spot and the foreman sent in the next man in line. Plus, those guys were working for something like $1 per day.
 

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