Hedge funds, private equity funds, financial services institutions, and banks are the leading routes in the stealth financial meltdown – what can you do to survive?
Paula Ranske
Jun. 25, 2007

The hedge funds are bleeding. The risky trades without the hedge is what killed these money managers that promise heaven to their wealthy investors. In risky futures, options, derivatives, and swaps trade, you make it one day and you lose the other day.

Bear Sterns now is the new casualty in the hedge fund game. It’s to their lowest level in nearly a year, on concern about the firm's hedge-fund woes and vulnerability to further subprime-market declines. The meltdown has just started. It is the first inning. By the time the catastrophe is finished, the financial world will be filled with regulations and checks. That is exactly what happened in 1933-37 after the Great Depression.

A bigger question is: what can you do to protect yourself from this financial meltdown?

You cannot just exit the financial world, and stuff all your money under your pillow. You have to beat them at their own game.

One place you should not be is in the banks. The bank deposits are vulnerable no matter what FDIC says. The second most vulnerable place is the stock market.

In a financial massacre, stocks get wiped out very fast because they are not something that people need to survive. Commodities are still in demand because people have to consume the same to live.

Get out of the stock market. Get out of the residential real estate market now! Buy some farmland if you can. The farmland will produce food and bio-fuel for energy. It will be in great demand.

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