[mylife]

I’m hiding it all in an undisclosed location.

[Old North State]

I can agree with most of this except N0. 40,
Most would be better off if they stopped obsessing about Congress, the Federal Reserve, and the president and focused on their own financial mismanagement.
No matter what you do, if the government destroys the value of the money that underlies financial instruments, you are sunk. That is the great ‘black swan’ of investing.
What about gold? The government has confiscated it before(1933) and will do it again if it suits them.