Visualize a year from now, those of you living in Alberta that converted your windfall from Tesoro and bought physical gold & silver (the most conservative portfolio you can get) can load your bullion into an 18 wheeler and load it into your barn at 3 in the morning. The rest of us are stuck. In Canada you can now buy physical gold from the Royal mint and they will store it for you at a nominal fee. Elsewhere in the world there are firms that will do this, but one of the big shorters was convicted of charging fees for unstored gold, so you will have to do more DD before making a decision. Listen to things such as the divergence between physical gold and paper gold etc. in the link below.

Apparently it is doubtful that Germany will ever get it's bullion back from the USA, and if anyone would like to hear an interesting video, sit back for awhile and listen to Eric Sprott discussing gold and silver in the Munich meeting, attended by 7000 souls.

http:/www.goldmoney.com/video/sprott