Gold

[PAH]

Wasn't expecting my pension to be worth jack by the time I'm old enough to be able to cash it in anyway. I expect the minimum retirement age will be 100+ by then.

So why don't all the countries in the west default (USA and Eurozone and UK) then stick two chopsticks up at china and anyone else holding lots of western currency or IOUs?

[TimberWolf]

All tanglible physical things as opposed to paper being printed in it's trillion. Have a read of this Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And then decide whether you would rather own some gold, some property and some shares in a business or a billion paper marks.

That's a logarithmic scale too boot, else it would stretch to Mars.