An ethical person - like a politician, banker or lawyer - may know right from wrong, but unlike many of them, a moral person lives it. An Americanist first already knows that.
Bankers and their government agents will always act in their own best interests. Any residual benefit flowing down to the citizens by happenstance will just be litter.
James Turk's interview with Reed Larsen from Old Glory Mint (recorded at the recent Utah Monetary Summit at the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City), is useful viewing for anyone trying to make sense of the recent volatility in the gold and silver markets. James notes that the fundamentals powering these precious metal prices higher have not changed, despite the sell-offs in September. As the recent announcement of more quantitative easing from the Bank of England and the European Central Bank shows, central banks will go on and on issuing more and more new money.
As James points out, buying gold and silver is a great way of protecting you and your family from ever-weaker national currencies. Purchases via dollar-cost-averaging are eminently sensible.