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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1576994, member: 41665&quot;]brg5658-</p><p>My friend lived through hyperinflation in Brazil in the early 1990s. He&#039;s only about 30 years old - very clear memory of &quot;paper failing.&quot; Disaster? Yes, of course.</p><p>MANY of my friends in Russia witnessed hyperinflation in Moscow in 1991: you might read this carefully <a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61" rel="nofollow">http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61</a> Disaster? Certainly.</p><p>I am sure my friends in Yugoslavia could tell similar stories from 1989-93. Disaster? War &amp; hunger &amp; then some. </p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t you understand why ALL of these people would have been &#039;better off&#039; holding/trading PM &quot;trinkets&quot;? <b>When I asked them, every single one replied YES.</b> </p><p>Don&#039;t take my word for it, ask some recent US immigrants (from any of a dozen or so other places too : Go find a ZIMBABWEAN lol!) yourself, what these kinds of experiences feel/felt like. </p><p><br /></p><p>Really. Seeing how complacent you&#039;ve become, US Paper has obviously made a very nice cushion for your fanny. The Dollah might do double duty there yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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