From Porter Stansberry in Stansberry Digest:

As you’ll recall… I (Porter) told you last Friday about the “Metropolitan Plan.”

That’s my name for the working plan to swap out the Federal Reserve’s paper assets for gold… a strategy that might be used in the future to stop a global run on the dollar.

Why would a former senior policy official even be working on such a thing? Why would major hedge-fund managers and investment banks be buying gold and gold stocks? Why would gun sales continue to increase in America, year after year? What’s driving these fears and the growing sense that something has gone very, very wrong with our economic system, which seems to only serve the needs of the very rich?

As you go about your everyday life, it’s easy to forget how big the economic problems we face really are… and how desperate our political leaders have become…