[spot5050]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peripato', ' ') Buy up two identical... likely survivable Mad-Max scenario.

[spot5050]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cephalotus', 'S')hares: 10k is not enough to diversify,...
Bonds: Not currently
Property: Sure, if it is usefu...
Gold: Way to expensive now.
Cash: Will give you flexi...ets broken...
Savings account: only very low interest rates. I would prefer the flexibility of cash. Also interest rates will most likely raise sooner or later (inflation!)

[SGV]

1) property
2) cash
3) gold

[papalegba]

I've been thinking more about this question again lately because I think there's a real likelihood that we're in for a period of significant inflation. Governments are going to print themselves out of the mess they're in - and the resulting inflation will make their debts easier to manage - too bad about your savings.

The bulk of my assets are in property - the one I live on and another for rental income; a rental property in an expensive neighbourhood close to the downtown core of the city closest to me. The theory is that even if it's dollar value collapses, as a tangible asset it will still have some value and there will still be people with something to trade for a place to live in. Good theory? Dunno, we'll see... but it seems to me that anything based on fiat currency is vulnerable. I have about 90% of my non-real-estate assets in the stock market, and the rest in silver - I wonder if I should change that?

[xerces]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('spot5050', 'I')f you had $10k now in cash and had to put that money aside for 10 years, where would you put it?