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Originally Posted by John Mercier
Few metals and gems in a collapse would be worth much...
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Tell that to the people who survived and left Vietnam for other safer parts of Asia after the fall of Saigon, where gold and other precious metals and stones were the only accepted form of payment to smuggle people out of the country to safety.... or the financial crisis' that occurred in South Korea, Argentina and Venezuela... or worse yet the 2008 complete currency crash that occurred in Zimbabwe where only gold was accepted in exchange for food and other necessities...Yeah I know, that can't happen in the USA...
Dan
Edited to add...Here's an excellent 15 minute documentary that talks about the value of gold and how important it became in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TI3rZSZj38