> - 8% of savings held in physical gold and silver It sounds like a good idea to me, but if I had that much untraceable wealth laying about, I'd be real quiet-

> - 8% of savings held in physical gold and silver It sounds like a good idea to me, but if I had that much untraceable wealth laying about, I'd be real quiet-like about it. Maybe keep the bulk of it in insured safe-deposit boxes or the like. I know that this increases the chance of government confiscation, but to me, that risk seems smaller than the risk of sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of completely untraceable assets.