But a few ounces of the solid gold stuff is insurance: if you ever need to escape and evade and bribe your way through customs and highway checkpoints, gold coins will be the ticket. Sometimes failing the checkpoint test gets you sent to the room where you (and your familia) don't come back.
Don't laugh. Ask any of the Vietnamese who made it to the USA in the 1970s. Or Jews who made it out through Spain in the late 1930s, etc.
One "lucky" Al Qaeda nuke could wreck our ecomomy, and then all bets are off and "full faith and credit" may become a bitter joke.
I have a few maple leaves around for the same reason I have a quantity of 5.56mm and an ocean crossing boat: insurance.
Could be very valuable.
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The three "G" plan that I bank on is Gold , Guns and Groceries. Albeit I'm a hard corp barrator who believes that in the future a single round of .22 long rifle ammunition will be of more value than a paper dollar I believe in investing in my country with one fifth of my wealth/income.
Sometimes that has resulted in drinking two fifths in a single session of angst but hey who said anyone knows what is the right way with regards to financial security and sucess.
Short of that genuis that is selling his "clean" urine to idiots who have to avoid the drug test results most everyone else like me has to work for our ideas on how to survive these days.
Gold ,IMHO "LAZ" is not something to get into for the short term......Ya want quick return on an investment :
A. Visit the plasma bank.
B. Get one of those cadaver tatoos on yer foot ( I'm two inches shorter from scraping those off all the time)
C. 4 or 5 deposits a day at the sperm bank (did'nt "you" tell me that one ?:o) and yes ladies he's taken ;o),
D. Eat in grocerie stores (and walk out after desert)
E. Harvest someone elses garden at night ( I said "harvest" not plow as your "married" now Laz)
F. Use an Oklahoma Credit Card (siphon hose) for your gasolene purchases......ect ect.
Gold is a long term "wait" investment...........Just my opinion of course !
Stay Safe Ya'll..........