[mamelukesabre]

Is it an upward pressure or a downward pressure? Short of a total destruction, what would it do? Raise or lower?

[John123]

Dude... your guess is good as mine... it can't be good when the biggest holder of our debt destroys the integrity of the commodity markets by walking away from its obligations.

If there is no precious metal markets... you can't really know the current prices for gold and silver until you use these metals as a exchange of goods.