The “smart money” has been buying up farmland hand over fist for the past few years and you can see how they helped drive up land prices in the U.S. heartland. Some think this is the place to be if the shit really hits the fan. Not gold, but productive assets that you can eat.
Remember the Jan. ’09 NY Magazine piece of the U.S. hedge fund manager entertaining buying a zodiac and “putting it in storage unit on the West Side, so he could get off the island quickly” in the event of a total financial collapse and social breakdown? Same concept.
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