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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 2020258, member: 37498&quot;]Define &quot;end of times&quot; scenario.&nbsp; Is there only one?&nbsp; Or do they come in various flavors?&nbsp; Various magnitudes?</p><p><br /></p><p>One scenario that I can see PM having no value is if there was no hope at all for the future.&nbsp; We&#039;re talking about the Yellowstone Caldera exploding at the same time an asteroid the size of the Titanic hits in Asia.&nbsp; If every survivor in such a scenario believes there is no chance for anyone to survive the coming winter, then PM would likely have little to no value whatsoever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another possibility is one where the population is dramatically reduced.&nbsp; As in from 7 billion to 70 or 7 million.&nbsp; In such a situation, each surviving person would have more stuff, probably including precious metals, than they would possibly know what to do with.</p><p><br /></p><p>A collapse of a government or a currency is not such a scenario.&nbsp; Heck, the Great Depression, WWI, WWII, the Great Recession, and the &quot;War on Terror&quot; weren&#039;t bad enough that PM lost their value.&nbsp; If there&#039;s hope for the future, or hope that people can move to where there is hope, then PM will still have value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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