You go to sleep and when you wake up the next morning you discover that your savings have been confiscated and that there is a new currency. Anyone receiving anything from the government, SS, pensions, medicare, etc. will no longer be getting anything. You will be seeing fifty percent unemployment. Everything will still be available but you have to have the new currency. What will you do? You better be ready to survive off of your stocks for a few weeks minimum, until you figure out a way to get some new money. Probably by selling your gold on a black market. May I humbly recommend Fernando Aquirre's book, "The Modern Survival Manual," which focuses on that scenario, not mutant biker zombie attacks.