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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2205544, member: 71510&quot;]There&#039;s a difference between recovery and gaining prosperity.&nbsp; We have recovered - a lot.&nbsp; But most outside of Wall St. have not completely recovered - and many are still way under water.&nbsp; Especially those that shorted their homes out, and trusted that they should just leave static investments in their 401k.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are in a particularly favorable real estate market - but I have seen that insanity my whole life (parents bought a house in Saratoga, CA for $46k in 1971 - Trulia&#039;s estimate on the house is $1.9million today).&nbsp; These days a million bucks in the bay area buys a small 3/2/2 tract home in a good neighborhood.&nbsp; The rest of the country isn&#039;t seeing that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Better than it was?&nbsp; Sure, but it was about as bad as it could get.&nbsp; Unemployment was at 15% and nobody had any savings to speak of.&nbsp; The government drained their coffers with extended unemployment benefits, bailouts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I admittedly survived it pretty well myself, but I&#039;m still way behind theoretical projections of what a stable economy would have presented.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at a long term historic chart of the DJIA - you will see that it&#039;s due for a correction/pullback/whatever you want to call it.&nbsp; 2002, 2008, 201?</p><p><br /></p><p>More importantly, look at the volume trend.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/historical/marketindexes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/historical/marketindexes.html" rel="nofollow">http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/historical/marketindexes.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We built a lot of this &quot;recovery&quot; on credit and thin money.&nbsp; That note is going to come due, and it&#039;s probably going to happen in an election year.</p><p><br /></p><p>In all honesty, I think stacking bullion should be one of the last investments you make in a diversified portfolio.&nbsp; It ranks above coins, collector cars and art, but certainly in a capitalistic economy, betting on expansion is always the first (401k), real estate (your primary home) second and then diversify from there.</p><p><br /></p><p>But this is about bullion in here - and I honestly believe it&#039;s a buyer&#039;s market at current prices.&nbsp; It may go down more - but that&#039;s just an opportunity to double up.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it does go down, it will stay down for a while.&nbsp; I don&#039;t expect anything for at least a few years.&nbsp; It&#039;s just time to accumulate slowly and relax knowing that I have assets in a safety net if needed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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