What to Expect When Telling Friends about Gold and Silver

Guy Christopher

Over the past several years, you’ve come through the barrage of bad news and warning after warning of the economic dangers facing your family and your country. That onslaught changed your outlook.

Prepare to be disappointed.

How can you fail, you wonder, to convince others of dangers so evident?

After all, you know your facts…

• Paper money is debt, backed by nothing;
• No paper currency has ever survived massive over-printing by any government in history;
• Gold and silver have been true money since antiquity with an undisputed track record of holding value through all wars and natural calamities;
• All governments on Earth are on the same path to drive their nations into ruinous debt with no regard for their citizens; simple math shows our national debt can never, ever be paid;
• And history proves conclusively from Ancient Rome to the old Soviet Union that no civilization can escape the massive economic chaos that comes with devaluing their own currencies.

You will invariably get the standard replies, led by the number-one favorite on my top ten list of excuses to never buy gold: If things got so bad, you would not use a gold coin to buy a loaf of bread.

I estimate my own record of selling the gold and silver story to my friends and loved ones at a 4% success rate. The success reported by friends who own precious metals is a bit lower, between 2% and 4%. Another informal survey I saw years ago found similar, very low results of around 3%.

The drumming continued on through 1965 when LBJ ordered silver out of everyday U.S. coinage, trading mystery metal for the silver in our pocket change. Nixon finished us off in 1971 when he defaulted on America’s promise to foreign nations to redeem their dollars for our gold.

Together, they convinced Americans that true money is the plastic credit card, not gold. Together they successfully redefined wealth as debt, replacing thousands of years of monetary history in just eight short decades.

Your government used your schools, your once-free press, and the financial industry to shamelessly steal your economic power in order to have that wealth for itself. The dirty secret all governments hid from you, and hid very successfully, is that gold is the only money those governments trust or truly care about.

That’s why all governments keep their dealings involving gold secret, and why it would take an Act of Congress, literally, to properly audit and account for America’s gold. That’s also why the Establishment Media ignores or corrupts the gold story, because they play on government’s side.

Your government prefers you hold debt, not wealth. They want that wealth in their hands, not in yours.

The free market itself will one day force everyone to pay attention.

Meanwhile, answer those ho-hum excuses about gold with honesty. Admit that when things do go bad, you too would never use a gold coin to buy a loaf of bread… you’d use that gold coin to buy the bakery!