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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1474907, member: 37498&quot;]After reading some of the responses, and after a little more thought, I think Dectecto is right. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>But only when taken to the extreme, as some people have taken it. :yes: If a person ONLY collects precious metals and neglects everything else as far as investing and preparedness are concerned, expecting the value of PM&#039;s to skyrocket when the SHTF, then chances are very good that they will be disappointed, either when the S does HTF, or if the S never HTF.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the S does HTF, and they&#039;re hoping their stash of PM&#039;s will buy everything they need, they&#039;d find themself paying a lot more for guns, ammo, gas, food, water, etc. than if they had purchased those using dollars today.&nbsp; Or, as has been noted previously, someone that already has the means will take their PM stash by force.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the S never HTF, they&#039;ll find themself with a lot less money than if they had invested the bulk of their capital in the market and a more reasonable amount in PM&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, I find most people who don&#039;t agree with buying PM&#039;s for preparedness purposes <i>*assume*</i> that&#039;s the only investment or preparation that person has.&nbsp; In my case, my PM stash represents less than 1% of my family&#039;s total investment portfolio, but it&#039;s probably more than 99% of Americans have on hand.&nbsp; (No, I&#039;m not one of the 1% (we need a lol smiley))</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s another word that for whatever strange reason seems to raise eyebrows.&nbsp; &quot;Preparation&quot;&nbsp; What&#039;s wrong with being prepared nowdays?&nbsp; I&#039;m not talking about having a fallout shelter stocked with five years worth of food.&nbsp; I&#039;m talking about taking reasonable steps that would help your family survive a natural disaster.&nbsp; Here in Montana, that pretty much means surviving a bad winter storm where the roads are impassable and the power is out for a week.&nbsp; Why does the majority of society nowdays see people that take these sort of steps as being some sort of extremeists?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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