Varmint
NES Member
Prices fixed. Conditions to significantly profit(anyone outside the system) would have to be catastrophic, enough so that exchanging precious metals for fiat currency would be one of the last things on your plate.
The beauty of gold, and why people here buy it, is that it's the one thing the government can't manipulate. The price is pretty much fixed, the value of everything else changes (the dollar, the yen, stocks, bonds etc). That's why gold will be valuable long after today's currencies are relegated to the history books.
Gold and silver are small markets, therefore you can manipulate prices by buying and selling large amounts, much more than say, you can manipulate the dollar, or the S&P500. But people here are buying for the long term, and we know that the more dollars, euros and yen they print, the more our gold and silver will be worth (eventually).