• IronBird@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    unless whatever “gold” you bought into actually delivered you physical gold or pays out a dividend…it’s probably being played the same as everything else, thats the whole point of a bubble.

    bonds are a whole other beast, as bonds whole point is to act as a safe secure longterm investment…when the wolves run the show…their whole goal is making everything unsafe. they’re trying to “shake people out”

    hence, mass devaluation of USD, ontop of out of control inflation (being hidden in crypto), and undermining any and all sources reliability like say…replacing heads of various “independent” federal agencies meant to report on the economy (and mass firings in those orgs). and of course…that ol’ sovereign debt crisis that pops up every 3-6 months.

    if your goal is keeping your nestegg safe, nothing connected to the US economy/USD is safe until the wolves are gone. but overall…you can just follow buffets advice, put your $ in stuff you know and don’t mind holding a long time.

    if you already sold your stocks…i’d look over everything you sold and see where it stands now, buying back might still a good deal. hell maybe it dropped since and you get a discount, who knows.

    they’re playing a dangerous game…if they (the people behind trump) forget rule 1, they arent the oldest players and that means they definitely don’t have the lowest cost basis. they fuck over or steal from the wrong people too many times and eventually they will get wiped out themselves (though forcing institutions to start offering and by extension buying crytpo, because they have hedge…smart move…)

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        lol, depending on when you moved it to gold then your probably up a bunch now.

        really, at the end of the day you jusy gotta do what you believe is the best move. that’s the only way you’ll be comfortable enough to not panic sell

        personally, if i had a half a million mestegg right now and wanted to keep it safe…gold probably is one of the safer places to stash it. just make sure you have enough cash lying around to be able to pay whatever bills/debts you have during an extended economic downturn. as when that does come…gold will also plummet eventually, but it normally recovers faster because so many people/governments around the world buy so much of it.

        the main thing is to not trade/move your money emotionally, dont panic sell or buy cause of a fear of missing out. these greedy assholes want you to do that, thats the whole reason they fuck with shit like this. it’s a sick game to these people. you got to have rules, a plan for scenarios like this one (don’t have everything in US companies, for example), and most importantly have the discpline stick to them.

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          23 hours ago

          Yeah. Measured in USD the move was very well timed. Since moving it my goal has changed from protecting my assets to staving this system. Economic pressure seems to be the only thing this executive responds to at all. Are COMEX futures used for some kind of fractional lending scheme or similar? How can I make sure as much as possible is withheld from the system without literally buying gold and burying it in the forest?

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            20 hours ago

            I dont know there, US cemented itself as center of world trade/finance specifically so it could have as kuch reach as possible.

            got to talk to an actual financial advisor for that kind question, a proper one who is legally obligated to work in your best interesr.

            but, my first guess would be to look at what orher countries/big foreign interests are doing. ones selling off all their US bonds and whatnot, clearly trying to get out from under USA’s schizophrenic thumb. but i’m still very new to this whole thing