[metmom]

This is the point where people turn their cash into hard assets. When the system collapses, the money is worthless, and the stuff isn’t available any more, you at least have what you bought before the whole thing fell apart.

[flamberge]

This is the point where people turn their cash into hard assets.

"We are advising our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns". (Gremlins, 1984)