Inflation hedge
From The TSP Survival Wiki
An inflation hedge, or hedge against inflation, is an investment or store of wealth that has intrinsic value. These are usually precious metals like gold or silver or various types of commodities. Within the prepper community, many preps are considered to be an inflation hedge.
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Common Financial Investments
- Bonds
- Certificate of deposit or Money market
- Commodities
- Individual retirement account or IRA, 401K, 403B
- Stock market securities and mutual funds
Common Investments in Survivalism
Main article Invest in tangibles
- Food - Food storage, Backyard Food Production, Growing your own food
- Water - Water storage, Water capture, Ponds-Lakes
- Gardening via Permaculture and other gardening techniques
- Precious metals - Silver, Gold, Platinum, Palladium and Copper-jacketed lead (ammunition with steel -- meaning firearms)
Risk to Investments
- Economic collapse: Inflation, Agflation, Deflation, Stagflation, Hyperinflation, Panic of 1907, Panic of 1893, Panic of 1837, Eurozone Crisis
- Stock market crash (Stock market crash of 1929) leading to Bank runs and Great Depression (Economic depression)
- Economic bubbles: The Coming Derivatives bubble, Real estate bubble (Subprime loans, Bailout, Obama administration corporate bailouts), Dot com bubble (Tulip mania)
- Financial Crisis of 2008 leading to Recession of 2008 (Recession), Economic stimulus, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Recovery Summer 2010
- Obamanomics: Obamunism Economic planning of the Obama administration fiscal policy, Obama administration monetary policy, Obamacare, Federal funding via Crony capitalism (Obama donor list), Deficit spending, Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism, Obamageddon
- National debt: Federal Reserve System's Ponzi scheme of Quantitative easing-Debt monetization devaluation of Fiat currency through Money supply-Treasury bills bought mostly by China and Japan
- Big Government-Welfare State-Nanny State-Police State: Globalist-Statist-Socialist-Communist Naughty States
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Support for your Investments
- Ludwig von Mises' conservative libertarian Austrian economics and Fiscal conservatism -Capitalist Conservative economic policies of Ron Paul
- Modern Survivalism: "if times get tough, or even if then don't", Debt is financial cancer, Tax is theft, Renewable energy, Financial security, You are in control of your life
- Invest in tangibles - Precious Metals, Copper-jacketed lead and Firearms
- Permaculture: Growing your own food, Food and water storage, PermaEthos, Permie Kids, Permaculture Principles and Design Series with Jack Spirko
- Vote with your feet - Strategic relocation: Owning land is true wealth and Personal-Localized-Regional-State-National-Global - Move to a Free state with Firearms freedom and free markets
- American Redoubt - Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington
- Free State Wyoming - Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party and Free State Project - New Hampshire
- Strategic Relocation-North American Guide to Safe Places by Joel Skousen
- Rawles on Retreats and Relocation by James Wesley Rawles
- Cumberland Redoubt - Tennessee and Kentucky - M.D. Creekmore
- Texas Redoubt - Jack Spirko's State
- If I wanted to save America
