It would blatantly obvious that precious metals would be in the mix; as with many other things of 'real' value - that's why I continually say Hard Assets!

My goodness. But that does not mean it forms a majority position. Certainly anyone who is not holding some form of Physical Hard Asset in the form of some Gold or Silver, or indeed coming up copper, is completely devoid of any kind of financial sense.

Now that we have dispensed with the obvious, I should hope it shant be revisited, due to its rather glaring being as an existnential part of it everything.

It's like trying to teach a dead chimp to walk in here!  I had thought that with the recommendations I had received to bring up the topic here in the first place a few days, but really - this is now becoming too much. You are all starting to sound like either a bunch of 1980 hard assed mortgage tied brokers who are falling short on your payments and can't afford to have changes happen, or you are all smoking something you shouldn't be.

You do know that by 2020-2025 the US dollar will hit 50 Cents right - now wrap your head around that. And that's just the tip of the iceberg with the momenetum behind the Renmindi and the Rubble right now.

So you do as you please. You are entitled to live in your little universe. Enjoy it.