Time to Tame the Mint

Government enforced lunacy is the reason that we the people have to act rather than listen. Commodities are a hot item because the supply is not up to the demand. There are better uses for copper, nickel and zinc for the business community than to have them tied up in some mostly useless media of exchange. But the story behind the story - mentioned in the first paragraph about the outlawing of silver Liberty dollars - implies that there will be a serious attempt at repression of the barter economy about the same time that the dollar economy has lost all it's purchasing power.

Metals are very useful commodities if you know what their properties are. Ductile, mallable, conductive, low heat capacity. Metal catalysts provide tweaks in the working structure that allow something different to occur. Almost all organic process chemistry has a demand for surface chemistry activation for thermodynamic or kinetic advantage. Metals lower activation energies, and in proper form are essential to plant and animal growth at trace levels. Chemistry need not be mystery nor misery.

Silver, Gold, Palladium and the Platinum Group metals are very much worth the investment - especially if you can have the materials in hand. The Liberty dollar concept - basing exchange on set value of silver coin appears legal to me on the surface and should be encouraged rather than illegalized. If anybody has a good reference article to the events - i have a few questions of 'how it got there' from when i last checked howdt on that debacle (mid-October).