When the USA financial sector finally wrings out all it's problems, in a few more quarters, the dollar won't be the main currency of the world, and that will snowball into more problems for the USA... if anybody goes back a few decades they might recall a newsletter, the Ruff times by Howard Ruff that recommended junk coins, gold, bullets, guns, paid for farming real estate, hunting and trapping skills, etc. as good investments in the "coming calamity"... he was three decades off in the timing but he might be right yet...