Why Buying Bullion Is Not A Good Investment....

I agree actually. I can see Silver having a use at some point though it will be worthless for a while after the incident, but the return youd get for gold will be terrible compared to what you pay for it now.

I actually think the most sought after items when things start to calm down and rebuild would be tobacco, booze, and candy as people will want to indulge in some precollaspe favorites. Plus if your going around tend spending silver left and right youll make your self a target. Having some silver is a good idea but not a lot. Itll be easier to get silver than any of the other items and the money would be better spent on guns/ammo/water purifying methods/food then a massive silver stack if doomsday prep is your goal.




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I have to disagree with that. This time would in fact be very different than any other time in history. There arent a whole lot of examples of a society just completely falling apart, usually an invading power just came in and over took the old one.

But never before has society been dependent on a system like it is today. Most people in the old days farmed their own things and were fairly self sufficient, thats no longer the case. We really have no examples of a modern society just collapsing other than the USSR shrinking in size and changing governments, but thats still not a complete monetary collapse like were talking about, they just switched to a new system.

So I would in fact say yes this time will be very different than anything that happened in the ancient world. Furthermore were essentially talking about a world wide collapse since were saying no one will be there to help. That has never happened before where national currencies became worth nothing and we have nothing to go off of as a comparison.

EDIT: To be clear I'm not saying it will be worth nothing, but compared to what was previously paid for it I'm saying its not a good stack in comparison to the amount of other goods you could have had. I'm also saying other things will be far more valuable and it wont be until quite a while afterwards when order is restored and rebuilding had begun that people will care for it. Youll be able to get silver far easier than food, or ammo, or anything like that and it will be easy to get a stack then if you want one if you have a stash of other goods specifically for trade.

Right now you pay almost 1800 for an ounce of gold. Thats over a 1000 bullets of almost any type of ammo, or about a 2 year prepper meal supply. You wont get remotely close to that for a gold coin if SHTF

Well you could set up midevil style traps with them. Break the trip wire and get a bar swinging down from a tree about a head high

Well, duh!

That's why I only buy 100-ounce bars....

Just out of curiousity what was the last failed country where gold and silver were commonly used as a replacement for money as opposed to a more pure barter system.

"Hobby investment = they like "the shiny" and use the investment angle to sway themselves ( or their spouse ) to justify the buy"

You called me out, exactly. LOL. Every time I see a silver bullion coin, I go "OHHH, SHINEY." Then I convince myself it's really an investment. HAHAH, I'm such a sucker to myself. Good thing I don't have a spouse, can't imagine having to get permission to spent my own cash, but everyone has there own. :P

I'm also kinda on the Zombie side of things. We've got all these movies about how a stupid cold can kill off alien invasions. But they never see it the other way around, that they could infect us with some kinda cold. Maybe the Black Plague was an alien disease? I make my friends crazy with all this alien/zombie stuff, but after listening to Coast to Coast for so long, I can't help it. If there are insect zombies in RL, there isn't much preventing humans from being zombified, just need to let evolution do it's thing. And if you don't believe me, look up ant zombies. I just hope it's not like the movie "aliens" with stuff busting out, like those parasites that live in crickets, and forcing them to jump into water so the parasite that continue it's life cycle. Imagine a 20 foot long parasite coming out of you? Doesn't matter where, because it's still going to hurt like hell.

Wish this forum was a Zombie/Aliens/Conspirators forum. And yeah, I know I can go to one, but it dosen't mean all you folks will follow. Usually forums are filled with trolls. Amazingly, this site isn't. Not sure if the admins are just doing a really great job, but yeah, love this site.

Your simply wrong. Read a little about the Germany hyperinflation period after World War I. No zombies, no new world order event just hyperinflation that made cash worthless. Those that held PM's along with other certain personal property such as art, rare stamps, antiques etc preserved their wealth.

Another interesting fact was during world war two. During World War II, many Greeks refused to accept local currency. British commanders carried gold bullion as the only means of paying locals for goods, service and labor.

I could go through a rather large list of examples but I think you get the point. Even in distressed times when food, water and basic needs of life were important gold still was king. History never lies if you know it. :)