[Red in Blue PA]

kingpins10 is 100% correct should the dollar collapse. There is absolutely nothing in his post which is factually incorrect, and your ad hominems will not change this fact.

[ml/nj]

So you think things would turn out badly for you with a big mortgage, a cache of Krugerrands, and jars of junk silver? (And maybe some bags of rice, and ammo to protect everything.)

(BTW, my family prospered in Weimar and early Nazi Germany until their lives were their lives were threatened and they were forced to escape. I have a third of my great-grandfather's stamp collection with all those hundred-billion mark stamps. They weren't part of the government or intellectual elite.)

ML/NJ

[ml/nj]

Your buddy sounds like my in-laws (freeloader and NYC teacher's union member). Both always thought that someone else was getting all the tax-breaks and whatnot while they were eking out a subsistence (not really) existence in a hovel in the Bronx.

ML/NJ