Turning gold into cash should be the last thing people do.<p>Unlike the US dollars, gold can't simply be mined fast enough to reduce its values. Whereas with the US dollar, the US federal reserve can just print it, literally.<p>Gold is the money of the future, especially when the economic system finally collapse. Gold has been money for thousand of years for good reason.<p>Unless there are better form of money in a free market, gold is the best choice. Horde some of it.(Of course, don't convert your entire saving into gold, that's stupid.) It may leave you one of the last guy with real wealth after an economic collapse. It is the cork that float in an ocean of economic uncertainly.<p>This is of course, assuming that the government managed to outrun our economic productive capacity.