Someone please chime in regarding BONDS! Are they better than stocks, etc?
Thanks for the thread!
NO Bonds! At least for now. With inflation likely comes rising interest rates, which will torpedo your bond’s market value.
If you like the idea of bonds, time to buy is at the peak of the interest rate cycle. And you’ll want to look for bonds that have limits on being called early.
I pulled out of stock market and went all in for cash and high yield tax exempt Vanguard Municipal bonds. You just gotta know with these evil incompetent democrats in power there’s going to be a crash.
Not in a high inflationary period.
Those are probably just as bad at this point.
Hard assets: Cars, Properties, Homes, Building materials, farms, concrete (not a joke) and stuff like that.
One of the bitcoins will finally break through as the “one world currency” for the Great Reset. I’m not sure which one that is. But for those who have their money invested in the one that does get chosen, they will be akin to an Oligarch.
The average joe with no property and debt will be a slave.
Those with property but nothing else will be next in line to the slave market.
It may take a year or two for all of this to happen. If the Middle East goes up in smoke with Israel/Iran/Syria it’ll happen sooner.
Go to your local Sams Club, Costco, BJ’s - note the shelves, especially the pallets they stock on the 2nd and 3rd shelves. Every big club warehouse I’ve been to in my area has ZERO inventory on the 3rd shelf. Not a good sign!
Bonds move inverse to interest rates, as interest rates climb the price of bonds will fall....
Depending on your objective that might be an advantage, but IMO, I would wait until you get a interest payment you want before jumping in.....
Either way to buy bonds or stocks, you need cash...
Please contact a professional about investing your assets, not random people on the internet.
Look up I Bonds
This is NOT advice, but I hate *all* paper instruments these days, including bonds. Plus, bond are SLOOooowwww money, even over time and even when they’re paying.
Again, NOT advice, but I went full hard assets a while back- real estate, oil, silver, guns, ammo, guitars etc. Right now, improving the real estate you own is a good investment, except for materials and labor.
The only paper I hold is for my oil index fund, only because I can’t keep oil in my house.