[imawit]

Totally got what you're saying. I'm on the Mac wagon also (I think I've read your moniker right). Now...let's say I and others have some cash (cash is always king in any situation), where besides a strong box could this go and earn some return. totally Everything going down or deflating is not real world either. So, rather than the matress....any good quesses ?

[applemac_g4]

>Where besides a strong box could this go and earn some
>return?

There's the real question isn't it? First, let's look at what you don't want to be doing: investing in bonds of corporations that are going to have some sort of difficulty, either resulting in bankruptcy or a downgrade. However, finding out exactly which corporations that will be is (at least for me), next to impossible. So I'd say, avoid the corporate bond market entirely.

A bank is only as good as it is solvent. I'll follow this up tommorow with a list of safe banks where you could park funds in savings accounts hopefully with little risk.

A government security, or municipal bond is only as good as the agency that backs it up. Hence, avoid the debt of countries with large trade deficits, weakening currencies, or that engage in tremendous amounts of deficit spending.