Here's something to remember:
Food will get you through a time of no gold better than gold in a time of no food.
I wish I could remember who said that. Quick to say, but a very important point. Importantly, seeds and plants can get you through a depression. Try surviving on money through a famine...
I have had the opinion for a long time that money doesn't mean anything, it is just an abstract - and just a way of keeping score. Things certainly seem to be pointing that way.
A whole lot of... quite questionable operators are foretelling doom with one hand, and spruiking gold with the other. Fraudulent? Perhaps. Certainly, they are playing on people's fears and profiting from said. I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to find that this is driving up gold prices, and filling people with a false sense of security.
Personally, I'm happy spending money on making sure I have plenty of resources to survive the lean years, than buying gold... Farmers in Weimar Republic Germany made it happily through their economic crisis back in the day because they had the food - and it was a seller's market.