I am more and more becoming an advocate for diversifying into gold. And I don’t mean certificates, I mean physical, you-can-hold-it-in-your-hands-and-look-at-it, gold. Personally, I’ve always been a bit of a mattress stuffer anyway - - I look sideways at banks or anyplace else the scumbag politicians can get their hands on my money (or “freeze my accounts”) without a gunfight.
Check out
http://ferfal.blogspot.com/
He has some interesting reading regarding gold and silver from a boots on the ground perspective.
Bigtime. Until they outlaw it. Again. (Or try to.)