If the collapse doesn't come whatever food you eat from your stash you don't have to buy at the time, so you get your money back.
Who gives my money back? You? The Government?
I think perhaps what you meant to say was if a really sophisticated investor like yourself buy's groceries as an investment then if/when you eat those 25 year old groceries (Yum!) that you don't have to buy the groceries for that meal in the future. That's hardly the same thing as "getting your money back" ..... even with food inflation.
Maybe it's just me but I've never received a dividend from a can of peas....LOL
People who have a bunch of gold might think they would get rich quick, but if they are in the U.S. that wouldn't happened because the government would confiscate most private gold as they have done before and at a price they set.
Fact check. The government does not track Gold sales unless you buy 10k or more in a single day making it a wee bit hard (just like the past) to collect what they don't know exists.
