Do you mean stocks in companies that own or mine precious metals, or the hard asseet itself? SIlver and gold can be manipulated down, as has been all our lives, but they cant suppress it forever, and if inflation happens like it would in a bad economic situation, the hard assets will go up in value, but if just have paper in say SLV, probably be fairly worthless, in my uneducated crayon eating hominid mind. Almost any paper you can buy on robinhood, probably not worth buying in a collapse situation. Stronger argument for PSLV (cant buy on robbinghood) but I believe that fund just holds physical silver. Hoping my tendies will moon before dollars take a back seat to shiny beads and wampum, so i can load up even more on hard assets. If precious metals are good investments, imagine what value firearms and associated products, plus medicines and eventually food/safe water will be worth. I dont know how bad it will be but it will have to be bad enough for the People to retake power for themselves. Is there miliatry/special govt ops that may have been preparing for commie takeovers and deep corruption for many years? I think so, but freedom is not real unless it is earned.