Holy hell....Rome is burning!

[sparked1]

You don't barter with PMs, since they ARE money. You barter with other goods....

That was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but thanks for the technical clarification. Besides, in the case of a societal collapse, the concept of "money" presumably would not exist.

 

[RiverBend]

Here ya go, wallstreet has no control over these, in fact they usually go up when it goes down,
https://www.theoutdoorstrader.com/threads/40-uncirculated-silver-eagles-for-sale.2155736/

 

[eightnsand]

Yeah, that's what I've actually been looking at in precious metals. Cobalt too. Right now China controls most of the world's cobalt supply, but there is exploration happening which aims to alleviate that, so definitely keeping an eye on both.

China also control most of the worlds Coronavirus too!