While I agree that having some precious metals stored safely at home may benefit you in the
event of a major crisis paralyzing the financial system, that should amount only to a small portion of your holdings.
My own work on this publication's
coverage of major crises, such as the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, shows that it consistently avoided confronting the central authorities.
This is an extraordinary survival mechanism if you are in danger, but if the stress continues over a long period of time (let's say you are going through a divorce, bankruptcy, the death of a loved or some
type of major crisis) your adrenal glands will eventually become damaged from being so hyperactive.
Many legal experts believe that it could be a landmark case, especially as it comes in the
midst of a major crisis for Facebook, which stands accused of failing to carry out appropriate checks on how data harvested from its users was being used.