My point is that silver and gold have went up 6 or 7 times from their lows several years back. Why, knowing that, would I want to buy gold in silver when I could by guns, bullets, MRE’s, seed, canning jars, garden tools, wood stoves, water purifiers, etc., etc., etc., - things I can actually use to survive - that have at worst went up say 100% in that time, stayed the same, or even went down?
By your preps first. If you have leftover money after that buy gold or silver as a store of value. Problem is you could give me a million dollars and I could spend it all on preps. There is very little reason to buy silver or gold beyond a small stash to use if you get lucky enough to find someone to take it after SHTF.
Agreed. Doesn't hurt to have a bit of gold/silver if you had everything else fleshed out and still had money to put toward prepping. Those talking about it buying their way away from the bad places may be whistling past the cemetery. In decades past, battles were fought in specific areas and you could move the family away from the war zone. With today's technologies, a real world wide war would mean there would be no safe havens. I suspect with the current crop of evil world leaders, they wouldn't consider "the only winning move is not to play" (War Games movie) and plunge headlong into total destruction mode.