Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com:
If you’ve been a dollarcollapse.com subscriber for at least three weeks then you know that I send out a few thoughts every Sunday morning.
Sometimes these thoughts are on the economy, life, or hard assets.
Whatever is helpful or hopeful. That’s what I’m interested in…
So, here we go.
Here are three Sunday morning thoughts for you:
1. Gold has gone up 687% since the “Dot Com” Bubble burst. It will continue to rise even faster as the dollar collapses.
Jim Quinn over at The Burning Platform recently posted an article outlining changes in the price of gold vs. the S&P 500 since the year 2000.
There’s more than a small difference.
The S&P 500 has gone up 287%, which makes it a 400% difference…
While all these flashy tech stocks lead the way for the index it makes them look real good.
Depending on the timescale, their price increases are literally unfathomable.
But they’re real prices.
Drop them into an index and what you have is a good advertisement, not a good, single asset.
The S&P 500 diversifies risk, and averages the growth of the 500 “best” companies in the US economy.
While gold is a single asset outperforming the S&P, which should indicate more trust but…
It gets ignored for financialized assets bought in the world’s reserve currency, the USD.
And that should indicate less trust, but as it is…
The world’s reserve currency seemed to intimidate the world into thinking it could be devalued forever without loss of value.
In reality all assets purchased in USD have been subject to logarithmic decay. This decay will continue until we can no longer recognize the value of the USD, or the prices we used to measure things in.
2. The only rule about Donald Trump is don’t talk about Donald Trump.
Just like ‘Fight Club.’
You don’t talk about Trump.
I wrote about him this week and a few readers sent flames…
They were angry as hell.
That’s ok, drama unfolds like that.
Whenever there’s a persecutor, or a victim… a rescuer comes along with a solution.
So when you mention Trump. Especially when he’s caught up in legal criteria we probably both feel can’t and shouldn’t be violated…
Someone gets angry, but…
Trump does seem to embody America’s anger against the establishment.
Because he says the quiet part out loud on a political stage…
And that quiet part is almost always the violation of traditional American values by both the political and legal system.
Whether he’s right or wrong (i’m not arguing for or against him here), the results are obvious…
There’s more fear, jealousy, envy, and anger than ever before.
Ultimately, what’s happened over a the last decade or two is a removal of trust in the political and legal establishment.
When that happens, the first rule should never be, “don’t talk about Donald Trump.”
He’s the elephant in the roooooom!
America is the elephant in the room.
Talk about them…
Before the anger turns into violence.
3. Exercise is the best form of discipline for you and your family to prepare for crisis.
This weekend my seven-year-old son did his Orange Belt Testing Exam in Martial Arts.
He’s been in martial arts since he was four-years-old. So, three years. He needed it.
With so much physical energy, he needed somewhere other than my wife to focus it.
You know what I mean? Learn respect…
All things considered, positive discipline is exactly what our next generation needs to get through the coming crisis.
The rich already do this…
The richer they are, the more they spend on education. Education for themselves and their children.
But you should know, even though the rich spend money on their children’s education, it’s more about teaching them to do the things they don’t want to do.
Because executing well early in life is one of the great “unseen” advantages many of the poor excuse as “luck” in their thirties.
Starting this discipline now, no matter your age will give you and your children great economic, emotional, and physiological advantages in the coming collapse.
You will not only learn to do things you don’t want to do, but you will be able to better regulate your emotions to make better decisions.
And if you decide that exercise is martial arts…
If you need to defend yourself, you can always channel your inner Chuck Norris, or even Walker, Texas Ranger…
Additionally, if those simple benefits haven’t convinced you, compare exercise for this generation compared to the 1960s…
Now…
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Then(1960)…
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Which teens are ready for action?
Enjoy your Sunday.
