What advice do you have for the future for people with money to invest (or at least protect)
I'm not an investment advisor, so don't really offer any.
I can say that most of our assets are on the sidelines in short-term US treasuries right now (4 week, and one tranche in 13-week).
I don't currently trust real-estate, the equities market (even though it reached a new high today), or commodities like oil, gold, or silver.
The reason is that I believe we're heading into a long-term global recession where existing debt will bury people and the old adage of "cash is trash" will now be "cash is king".