With the dollar to all-time lows, gold to all-time highs, the answer is clear: Gold is the way. Not just Gold in fact, but all precious metals. Silver has been climbing at a double digit percentage for months and months. Silver coins and Gold coins have seen a dramatic rise in price. Silver may be a better metal because it has far less room to fall, has many uses in manufacturing and other industries, and also could double or triple it’s value while still remaining an economical metal to use in industry. Yet Gold has always had an esoteric air about it, considered valuable by all cultures, even the Native Americans were found mining gold when the colonists arrived. Whatever you do, avoid the stock market: stocks are essentially “corporate currency”, much like a national currency, only more volatile: nothing backs it (like the fiat currency of today). In an upturn this can lead to rising stock prices due to speculation, but in a downturn it is a suicidal gamble. The stocks/shares system has been around for over 2,000 years: in Rome they were called “socii”, and like today, the Romans experienced bubbles and crashes.

Yet as it was 2,000 years ago, and remains today: Gold has always been a great container of value. Gold has never become worthless, is universally valued by all nations, and barring manipulation by great nation states with large gold reserves; always continued to rise in value. Or perhaps a better way of wording it would be to say Gold has never truly lost value: the paper currencies around it have either gained or lost value compared to it. So in a time of economic uncertainty and potential global crisis, Gold is king.