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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1433798, member: 37498&quot;]I noticed you used the word &quot;today&quot; in your post four times, and I agree, &quot;today&quot; our money is indeed money.&nbsp; But when I said &quot;real money&quot;, I was thinking beyond today. I meant something that can be used as money in our current system, but also have the additional benefit of being valuable 50-100 years from now when who knows what happens to our economy.&nbsp; That&#039;s what I call &quot;real money&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example.&nbsp; What would have happened if a guy in Germany stashed one million Deutschemarks in a box, and sealed that box inside a wall twenty years ago, for his kids to find after he died.&nbsp; His kids remodel and find the box today.&nbsp; What&#039;s it worth?&nbsp; Not one million Euros.&nbsp; Probably not even a thousand Euros in collector value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the German Mark was demonitized when they changed over to the Euro.&nbsp; After the deadline, the Mark became worth the paper it was printed on, and the coins became worth the metal they contained.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, what would happen if that same guy stashed one million Marks worth of Silver in a wall.&nbsp; That would have been about 165,000 ounces of silver.&nbsp; Twenty years later, his kids would find 165,000 ounces of silver.&nbsp; Instead of being worth close to nothing, it would be worth close to four million Euros.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of uncertainty, maybe we&#039;ll discover a way to efficiently rearrange atoms in such a way as to make any element we want.&nbsp; This discovery could very well make every element abundant and the concept of precious metals would be a thing of the past.&nbsp; All of our PM bullion could instantly be reduced to numismatic value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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