I would be careful, because there are off shore banking, swaps, derivatives and etc etc that is not on the books. Experts estimate the world has about $ 1.500 quadrillion (1000 trillions) of these invisible interlocking debts. If it implodes because other economies are imploding or US interest rates are increasing (rumor has it that the Feds must find a way to prevent the 10 year T bond yields to exceed 3 percent or it will unhinge the interest rate swaps that the US has with other banks in the world. Just to give you an idea of scale, the US economy is 17 trillion, add the world economy to the US economy it becomes 65 trillion. The US debt is 16 trillion, plus 70 trillion in unfunded liabilities plus 30 trillion in unseen deals made by the Fed Reserve with foreign banks, deals backed by the US Treasury (ala US taxpayers). Worst case US debt is about equal to the entire global GDP times 2. Off shore derivatives and other exotic vehicles is $ 1500 trillion. IMHO when the world interlocking scheme and attempt to preserve the world reserve currency (US dollar) falls apart the nations of the world will come up with a new world currency backed by a basket of hard assets. This is why China and Russia is buying gold even when the price of gold drops in US dollars. China is hedging her bets to cover potential loss in the $ 1 trillion worth of US T bonds she had invested in. China cannot dump the US T bills without injuring her economy, but she cannot sit by as the US gov keeps piling debt on debt till the dollar implodes. China and Russia has a plan, do we FR and Tea Party members have a plan for self and family when banks are closed and the Fed Gov is forced to reset the US dollar.
I can’t buy gold, but silver should work too. Main thing is to have shelter, water, food, medicine, ammo, barter items, and a garden.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that if there’s a major economic/currency reset, Russia will still have oil and gas, China will still have 1/2 of the world’s industrial capacity, and they’ll still get most of their copper from Chile.
Things might not exactly be comfortable in those places, but it’s going to be paradise compared to what would happen here. We barely even feed ourselves at this point.