Expect this to happen a lot more often from here on. I think we are very close to having exchanged controls imposed. At a certain point, as demand for the dollar dries up, money simply won’t be allowed to leave this country. I’d really focus hard on getting whatever you need to get out NOW, in one lump sum, in one wire. Stay on them. And screw the $10K reporting law. Better to let the Feds know that you sent $50K and try to let them get their hands on it out of the country, than having $50K stuck over here.

You’re spot on about gold. And the *market* price of silver is now less than it was 3 years ago, when the dollar was much stronger, long before the crisis began.