Finding a Safe Haven for Your Money

Is the sky actually falling or are you generally a fearmonger all of the time? There is always somewhere to put your money. While it may seem as if things can only get worse, somewhere things are getting better (or at least getting ready to get better). Pessimism has lost more money than optimism in the stock and bond markets over time. So, the million dollar (or whatever currency you prefer) question becomes: If there's no place to put money, then where is yours?

Just for one instant allow yourself to consider - if it IS the dollar, then this 'worst quarter since the great depression' could very well be the BEGINNING of harder times until the dollar is fixed. If it can't be ? well then - perhaps Paulson or Bernanke or Bush will come forward and say so - but I'm sure that wouldn't go over well on Wall Street: "I'm sorry to say - the dollar is unrecoverable folks " ugh! Thankfully that insight isn't even floating around the pool - YET Hopefully - it's going to be a CaddyShack scene with Bill Murray- and things will work out.

I think you're missing the mark here. I'm no Hebrew scholar, but I understand the word 'sin' means in Hebrew to 'miss the mark'. It is rather hard to find a safe place for any assets held in US Dollars when the US Dollar has been sliding greatly against the Bretton Woods currencies. THAT is the issue if you ask me. I think wherever you place investment in US dollar currencies, so long as the dollar falls ? you lose - you're swimming up stream. and yet ? MarketWatch day in - day out runs headlines 'Oil hits new record high' Never anyone doing the math to say - Wow, US Dollar sinks to record low ! Sterling hits record 2 to 1 ratio ! Euro nears 1.60 to 1 ! where are THOSE headlines ? And yet ? people think these commodities are going up - whether gold or oil - and they are most certainly not in ANY regard to how they are promoted. We need to shave of near 40% I figure of oil on currency loss alone. All of a suddent ? Hey, $145 oil ? becomes ? 90 approx. Gee - funny how that is - oil is about where it was when you adjust properly for the falling dollar. Why isn't anyone able to see that Alexis ? Liz MacDonald I observe runs some insights into oil - that last article was a fun one, once one sorts out the humor, it appears she has landed on the moon of prima facie causal factor being the dollar, same as president of OPEC, same as the Saudi's, same as the US oil corporations - probably admitted only on the golf green though. I think until the dollar is fixed, there IS no safe place to put your money. It's in jeopardy and instead of focussing on a safe place to put your money, I'd fish upstream and hold those accountable - and THAT is a challenge too - discerning WHO, HOW and WHAT are the causes behind the falling dollar. One thing for sure - last thursday- we saw the first results of what happens when the Fed, the Sec. of Treasury and the President come out SAYING they are for a strong dollar - and do NOT deliver by raising rates. I think until Bernanke DOES come forward and raise rates to show he's not afraid to get his hands dirty- and cause some damage early on rather than strewn out of a decade - we're going to see heavy losses daily. My point is - there IS no safe place Alexis to put your money until the dollar gains strength. Anyone else ? thoughts ? insights ? (I somewhat hold to my point on the dollar as dogma there, but I'm willing to change it if someone can offer up any better candidate for understanding wall street crashing and futures skyrocketing unrealistically out of control far far far beyond realistic demand).