Take it from ‘Dr. Doom’: own some physical gold and keep it out of the banking system.
Dr. Marc Faber, a legendary investor and the editor/publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, is well known for his contrarian investing style.
In a recent Metal Masters interview with the Hard Assets Alliance, he noted that the biggest geopolitical risk for Americans today is not a conventional war but rather cyber-attacks that could take down the US power grid.
In such a scenario, gold would become an irreplaceable medium of exchange. But it’s not the only reason to own gold today.
Diversified Assets Outside the Banking System
Faber grew up in Switzerland right after World War II, a tough time that caused his family to distrust paper money and taught him the importance of precious metals as a safety net.
Faber remembers how his father talked about rich people as millionaires.
‘That, in the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s, was a lot of money. Today, a million is nothing at all – small change. Unfortunately. When people talk about, ‘Oh, there is no inflation in the system,’ this is nonsense. Compared to assets, money has lost a tremendous amount of purchasing power.’
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 20, 2017.
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