Canned food and shotguns....

Seriously though, physical resources are always better than any other alternative, and things that can be traded because they have real world use is generally better than gold or anything else that only have value because people assign it value due to food and other life essentials being readily available.

Some gold and anything similar may be a good idea and a transitional convenience with anything short-lived/non-permanent but only as a percentage of the total and definitively not more than a third....

Any investing is a gamble and the more 'unsettled' things are the greater the gamble.......

Canned food and shotguns....