Ok so here's a question I asked myself. If you buy silver , gold , platinum, ect for financial security when the dollar ain't worth squat or economic collapse. How do you plan on using it to buy anything? Can't go to the Walmart and shave off some gold or silver to the cashier for your bread and milk. You gotta sell it to someone and they give you more worthless cash . Probably alot more then it took to buy it but all the same if it's not worth the paper it's printed on. Don't get me wrong I like silver , got some but more for the neat factor as they make some pretty cool bullion. My investment In precious metals are brass, copper, lead . You get the jist. Because when "bob" has gold bars and "john" has Ammo .....well john also has gold bars ; ) . It's was just a random thought that popped in my head a while back and I then changed my "investment strategy " what says you?