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personal investments management during a civil war
me | 2020-12-5 | me

Posted on 12/05/2020 5:18:14 AM PST by SteveH

any thoughts?

i am thinking

* payoff mortgage immediately

* divest from all stocks, mutual funds, bonds 50% now, 25% next week if bad news continues

* move into precious metals now, 50% from cash in bank now, 25% next week if bad news continues

* pay off any mortgage (if overall finances allow, eg, if mortgage currently being used as income tax dodge)

* (current blue state residents) prepare for possibility of a need to leave home with very little advance notice, travel to nearest solid red state - have or buy a decent auto, preferably 4x4 truck. plan the route now, memorize it

(anyone considering going to mexico? canada?)

(i would love to be wrong about a need to do all of this.)

thoughts welcome


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: banks; mortgages; stocks
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To: SkyPilot

Agree - the sociopaths have those bases covered.

I suspect the elites will use gold, silver, bitcoin, Fedcoin, banknotes, etc. as a medium of exchange. Unfortunately for the serfs, money of any kind will be illegal and anyone caught using money will be dealt with harshly.

Best to spend your time learning to be as self sufficient as possible. And barter.

I hope and pray I’m wrong about this.


21 posted on 12/05/2020 5:43:28 AM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: SteveH

Precious metals: lead and brass

You will need them when those who believe that socialism is the answer come to your house to put it into practice.


22 posted on 12/05/2020 5:44:07 AM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, Libs, Progs, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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To: SteveH

Bought a couple acres of land up in AK. Planned to move there eventually, but a Biden “win” will move up those plans.

I figure for bugging out AK has a lot going for it. Harsher climate and fewer services, so hordes of refugees/illegals won’t be interested in settling there. Large, rich in natural resources, and geographically isolated from the rest of the country - so AK *could* go it alone if things in the lower 48 got really out of control.

And I hear the fishing is good. And I like salmon.


23 posted on 12/05/2020 5:45:42 AM PST by shaven_llama
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To: Perseverando

You beat me to the punch.


24 posted on 12/05/2020 5:47:23 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: BusterDog

“Yeah. And if they put Biden in, maybe we don’t pay bills . . . .”

I’m talking about civil disobedience here, not communism, btw.


25 posted on 12/05/2020 5:47:23 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: SteveH

Dont buy bonds now....rates too low. Refi your mortgage. 2.75% for 30 years? That is FREE money. Work on your food preps and build up 3-6 months of cash equivalents in bank/investment account. Cut the cord, buy a gun, go to church....etc.


26 posted on 12/05/2020 5:47:35 AM PST by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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To: SteveH

We have a meeting with our Vanguard guy this coming week. It should be interesting.


27 posted on 12/05/2020 5:48:52 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" Galatians 5:1)
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To: shaven_llama

The new currency will be ammo and tp.


28 posted on 12/05/2020 5:49:22 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: mac_truck

Brass,
Copper,
Lead.


29 posted on 12/05/2020 5:50:17 AM PST by Big Red Badger ("Bats Soup" to "Nuts" Biden,CHINAs' Beind it ALL!)
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To: SkyPilot

We’ll have to bow in the direction of Davos daily!


30 posted on 12/05/2020 5:50:28 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Savage Beast

Stay and fight!

Don’t run away bro.......


31 posted on 12/05/2020 5:51:11 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: RoosterRedux

China grabs Taiwan just like Germany grabbed Poland on September 1, 1939.

Then what?


32 posted on 12/05/2020 5:52:06 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: SteveH

I’ve said this before ... if you are a firearms owner, we will be the first to be targeted by Biteme. When the UNCONSTITUTIONAL NFA Act is modified to include virtually all semi-auto firearm will be banned. ATF will raid all firearms dealers for 4473 forms for their “list”.

What I will be doing is put everything (all assets) in an irrevocable trust with my wife as trustee/executor. We may have to get a divorce in order to separate legal joint property.

I am sure that as the gov’t comes and murders gun owners they will want to add insult to injury and initiate asset forfeiture against the dead firearms owners property, if I don’t own anything, then they can’t confiscate it and leave my family in poverty.

Cash is always king, have plenty of it in the near future.


33 posted on 12/05/2020 5:53:26 AM PST by CapnJack ( )
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To: shaven_llama

Metal....Gold, Silver, Brass and Lead.


34 posted on 12/05/2020 5:54:24 AM PST by spokeshave (White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

> China grabs Taiwan just like Germany grabbed Poland on September 1, 1939.

Biden sends a strongly worded letter of protest to the UN but does nothing.

SK and Japan realize they’re on their own and start arming like crazy.


35 posted on 12/05/2020 5:55:41 AM PST by shaven_llama
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To: SteveH

I John Gault retired 7 years ago. Houses are already paid off. One is 125 acre ranch in SE Oklahoma. Food pantrys and fuel storage there. We already spend most of our time there. I pulled 50% out of the market Nov 6th. That would last me years. Other 50% should be used to “pick winners”. Like some winners in the military industrial complex. Stay away from bonds and funds.


36 posted on 12/05/2020 5:57:02 AM PST by kjam22 ( )
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To: Savage Beast

“Mexico is too violent and dangerous.”

FWIW, I am told that Mexico is like a big American city - lots of crime and poverty in certain areas but prosperous and civil in others.

You just have to know where to go if you plan on dropping anchor there. Some people say Mexico is a reasonable option for anyone ‘getting out of Dodge’.

I myself have never been to Mexico nor am I thinking of relocating there. Just throwing that in there in hopes it will help.


37 posted on 12/05/2020 5:57:11 AM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: SteveH

“(anyone considering going to mexico? canada?)”

Hell no! I am an American.
I will die here


38 posted on 12/05/2020 5:58:09 AM PST by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption. SOROS IS "SPARTACUS" BOOKER'S LANISTA.)
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To: Paulie

> “Mexico is too violent and dangerous.”

I’d try Costa Rica before Mexico. More expensive these days, though. Remember, as a foreigner in Mexico, you cannot own real estate.


39 posted on 12/05/2020 5:59:01 AM PST by shaven_llama
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To: SteveH

#1 if you are only now planing prepping for the coming Democrat government disaster, you are toast. I have only one piece of advice, get as far away from the cities as you can.
Buy ammo, guns, and keep your head down, The SHTF.
Sent from a cattle ranch in Hawaii via satellite.
Hard to get much further away from a city than I am.


40 posted on 12/05/2020 5:59:37 AM PST by rellic
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