Dear Cahlen, thank you for your wise thoughts. I can understand your thoughts on gold and silver best, and will ask my wise friend who seems to share many of your hunches regards the impending scenarios you sense acoming whether he has considered solar flares. It would be interesting to contrast speculations from people with the same mild but sensible approach to what to do about money in the coming 10-30 years, so I will resteem this post - so that at least my friend gets to read it.