LOL, yes, if the USD blows up, that does sound like a great deal for the banks as a fallback option doesn't it? Too bad nobody cares about what the banks want. Nobody will trust the banks for decades after an enormous percent of the population loses their life savings to them. Since the only other noble metal that functions as currency at all is silver, there is no way they could possibly contain it or prevent people from using it to avoid the counter party risk. FOA's complete FAILURE in predictions shows this, where he claimed silver would go from $5 to $0.50.
I do not know who FOA is or his relevance to this discussion. It sounds like he has previously presented a similar argument to my argument above. Every market has noise. Identifying a trend is not necessarily helpful for short term predictions. I think silver will do just fine over the next few years and closely track gold.
The flaw in your thinking r0ach is a misunderstanding of the immediate future. You seem to believe there will be a global hyper-inflationary collapse a worldwide Weimar Republic scenario leading to a global dark age and a return to a simpler time with metals used for day to day transactions. This is not going to happen.
It amazes that otherwise bright people cant understand the simple concept that economic collapse doesnt convert collectivists into anarchists.
Economic collapse will be likely be staggered not simultaneous it will indeed threaten the life savings of those with money in the banks, those with pensions, and even to some degree those in stocks. It will result not in a return to metallic currency but an unstoppable political pressure to replace corrupt and "incompetent" national governments with "superior" global institutions. SDR or a similar electronic concept will be exchanged for sovereignty stabilizing unsteady markets. The immediate future involves the uncertainty of transitioning from multiple nation state fiats to a global fiat. All precious metals will probably do well during this transition period.
Global government will maintain stability via limited wealth transfers to contain unrest (universal guaranteed income) coupled with universal surveillance to destroy malcontents. Such a government will likely be at somewhat stable. However, the inefficiencies introduced will result lower growth rates then has been the recent historic norm.