Can’t argue with your post, and observations.
Much that goes on does not make sense.
Would appreciate sage advice for near as possible sure thing ethical investment recommendations yielding good honest returns..
Every upper middle class doctor, engineer, and lawyer I know is counting on buying the right real estate instead of investing in the stock market. They have a point. Income plus potential appreciation plus real ownership. Lots of advisors absolutely don’t like real estate. But these friends will reply to the advisors that they are speaking about ‘the RIGHT real estate’.
I don’t know real estate, so I don’t know what is ‘right’ and what isn’t.
“Would appreciate sage advice for near as possible sure thing ethical investment recommendations yielding good honest returns.”
My strategy has been:
Get myself out of debt; consumer first, then pay like heck on the farm mortgage.
Buy land if you can.
Take advantage of EVERY pre-tax dollar vehicle you can through your employer should you be lucky enough to still be employed.
Buy PHYSICAL Gold & Silver as a hedge. Nothing on paper. You need to hold it in your hot little hands!
Bullets, Beans and Gasoline. Prep, prep, prep!
I’ve been at this for about 14 years now; have lost very little in the markets (blue chips mainly and a mix of international, some bonds) and G & S filled in those gaps. I’m selling our Little Farm and retiring to our Big Farm at the end of this year to farm until we starve to death or they smoke us out, LOL!