Posted on 01/26/2015 11:43:28 AM PST by 9thLife
Super rich hedge fund managers are buying 'secret boltholes' where they can hideout in the event of civil uprising against growing inequality, it has been claimed.
Nervous financiers from across the globe have begun purchasing landing strips, homes and land in areas such as New Zealand so they can flee should people rise up.
With growing inequality and riots such as those in London in 2011 and in Ferguson and other parts of the USA last year, many financial leaders fear they could become targets for public fury.
Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, told people at the World Economic Forum in Davos that many hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes.
He said: “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway."
GettyAustralian outbackHideaway: Rich people are plotting to escape to remote parts of the world Mr Johnson, said the economic situation could soon become intolerable as even in the richest countries inequality was increasing.
He said: "People need to know there are possibilities for their children – that they will have the same opportunity as anyone else.
"There is a wicked feedback loop. Politicians who get more money tend to use it to get more even money."
He added: "I think the rich are worried and they should be worried. I mean inequality, why does it matter?
"Most people have heard the Oxfam statistics that now we’ve got 80, the 80 richest people in the world, having more wealth that the bottom three-point-five billion, and very soon we’ll get a situation where that one percent, one percent of the richest people have more wealth than everybody else, the 99."
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More power to them. I will admit to having about a years worth of stuff (and more — one year assumes I don’t hunt, plant, or do anything but watch movies as my generator hums, which obviously is not going to happen) at the well-secured ranch.
The prog elites are going to take their Federal Reserve notes with them.
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The Progs are getting nervous, wonder why?
Preppers’ PING!!
Hedgefunds? Aren’t they the guys that invest in stuff betting that it will go down in value? Probably a good idea to get out of dodge when most people are buying a stock to gain value, and when it crashes, you are the only guy with any money, perceived to be gained at their loss.
The thing that intersts me is has this prepping always been going on, or has it ramped up recently? Something they know?
They should start to worry only after DC gets torched. Michelle is no Dolly Madison you betcha!
Wasn’t there a depression in the late 1800’s where people were so p!$$ed off at the bankers that they started stringing them up on gas lamp poles?
They have nothing to fear, but tar, feathers, rope and lamp post.
We should each pick out one to perform a welfare-check on after TSHTF.
Wow, who would have thought that economic inequality would have increased so much in the last six years? Shouldn’t huge bailouts to the banks, and GM have fixed that? Shouldn’t piles of money sent to Obama’s donors (green energy, unions, etc.) have fixed that? So strange.
And also, isn’t shocking that these rich elites so frequently advocate for their private security being the only people allowed to have guns?
I seem to recall that being the Panic of 1873.
It worked for Quadaffi....
I've personally solved the problem of not being one of those wild-eyed paranoids with a cabin in the weeds sitting on a stash of food, beer, and ammo, by becoming one. Saves an awful lot of strain.
Grover Cleveland’s 2nd term... Don’t know the details.
Didn’t Jodie Foster do a movie with a related theme? It may have been called Safe Rooms.
Well, of course they do. All those New York City financial whizzes are going to run away and raise sheep.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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