Listen to uncle Ponce because the time is NOW...... now is the time to get rid of your paper stocks including gold, silver and so on.
Buy physical PM and you will thank me, specially silver, the ratio of silver to gold is at this time of about 50-1 and it should be about 16-1........but it might even go to 9-1.
As some you know gold last year went up 16% plus and silver 19% plus....... the average for cost per oz of my "new" silver holdings is of $5.16 where in 1972 it was of $4.95...... but that's only pennies when you consider the fact that in 1980 I sold it for $43.65 per oz......I was lucky and nothing more.
PM is getting ready to go up and it will go up for a few more years.....China and India are buying PM as well as those who control the US currency because after the dollar drops they will have to base the new American currency on something.....the reason is that there will no longer be a "free" ride as it was with the "Petro-Dollar".
The US government could pull a "sneaky" one by calling PM, specially silver, a strategic material and ask everyone to turn in their physical silver, and then monitored the PM stores in order to see who will try to sell theirs........... BUT.
If you are like me an holding PM as a survival tool and not as an investment then you will safe because you will be able to get rid of your PM little by little by trading it for what you might need.
Why NOT hold paper stocks for PM?

? simple, most of the mines are overseas and if WTSHTF then the government of those countries will take over the mines and will not honor that piece of paper that you are holding.
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"... Ponce