>> "In a situation where the treasury defaults your best investment is probably guns and food." With the fall of the Soviet Union as a guide for crumbling mone

>> "In a situation where the treasury defaults your best investment is probably guns and food." With the fall of the Soviet Union as a guide for crumbling monetary systems/empires, guns and food are nice to have around, but the best currencies by far are vodka, cigarettes, and other drugs. The are portable, liquid (heh) assets that are useful in barter and also (crucially) prized as bribes by the groups of armed men, in or out of uniform, who will make or break your survival strategy. You can always trade drugs for food but hardly ever the other way around. My favorite Vietnam-era strongman, General Tuan Shi-Wen, said it best: "... an army must have guns, and to buy guns you must have money. In these mountains, the only money is opium." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santikhiri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santikhiri