another great depression feb 2009, page-2

However, if all the doomsayers are right, we are looking at stagflation - so only gold, silver and platinum will be any good.

Cash would lose it value, so having it under your floorboards would be useless.

Zimbabwe have started printing $50 billion dollar notes - however they have now run out of paper to print the money on!

I don't believe it will come to pass - just that cash could well be useless (particularly in the US) in the world is ending type scenario...