Using Fear as a selling tool is nothing new, in fact the democrats have been doing this for years, telling voters that the republicans are against food stamps and would rather watch people starve than to help one of them out.
When you use Fear as a tool to attempt to get someone to do something that you want them to do it is not a good thing.
There is some evidence that continuing to print money or what they call quantitative easing, we could be destabilizing our currency and it is these facts that are in the lead here for this news story.
They say that you should buy silver or gold.
But that may not help at all, what worth is silver if the economy collapses?