 There are many good reasons to buy gold and silver. Bank failures, digital currency, volatility, emerging market countries trying to topple the dollar as a global reserve currency. This is Dennis Prager for AmFed, coin and bullion, my choice for precious metals. If you ask my friend and AmFed owner, Nick Krovich, to simplify the case for precious metals, he'll tell you when President Roosevelt recalled the gold in circulation and paid people with paper money.