SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: TobagoJack who wrote (3623)1/19/2006 9:55:32 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217980
 
I just do not know.

That makes two of us.

The real estate in beautiful places hedge was a no brainer, however, and I take no credit for it as it was obvious is still obvious and still eminently viable especially if inflation makes a comeback. Unlike gold, you can live in it, rent it, depreciate it, develop it, condominiumize it, etc., instead of simply waiting for teotwawki. As teotwawki approaches, those with gold will be fleeing hither and yon, looking for berautiful and exotic places in which to land.

An uncle has made a fortune buying and selling Hawaiian real estate to and from the Japanese. I had a chance to buy Aspen and Telluride real estate in the 80s but stupidly didn't. These are a couple of real life examples which probably make gold look like anemic by comparison.

I do agree that teotwawki is possible given the Islamic insanity. Thanks to the Iranians, we'll either see a replay of the Carter years and the economic dislocation it brought, or we'll see a real shooting war, nukes and all, as I don't see how the West can foil the Islamists' nuclear ambitions forever. In either case, gold and real estate in beautiful places will do very well indeed.



To: TobagoJack who wrote (3623)1/20/2006 5:49:17 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217980
 
<The reason I engage the likes of Maurice and Crabbe in typewriter combat is that their ideas are simply dangerous, and they do not even know they are dangerous, thus making them the “must resist” targets.>

TJ, that's hilarious. My ideas aren't dangerous. They are correct. My predictions inevitable. The trend relentless. Resistance is futile - for example, you will buy CDMA. Yiwu the Mad will not rule Taiwan.

Mqurice the Dangerous.