Let's face it. My investment strategy, when I do ignore Sallie Mae long enough to invest, is to put money in industries that I deem "aint going nowhere." Novelties such as gold and sugar and paper. These are the staples of the world.
Everyone knows it and loves it and ... I am an idiot. Obviously not the savvy investor. But funny thing, there are crazier people out there.
As I review the sadness that is my decision to work for the Federal Government, as they work toward cohesion, I am now forced to re-reflect on my life. Doing so results in scanning various CNN and news websites (totally not searching for a FT j-o-b but I may spot evening and weekend money just in case the whole, deadlocked Executive-Legislative situation doesn't improve).
And on this voyage to converting my soon to be student loan debt into my soon to be riches, I find an article about Sean Hyman and his "Biblical Money Code." I jumped to the same conclusion you've probably jumped to, which is an obvious theFuk. But, give the man a chance.
The article, which increasingly looks more and more like a scam, turns out to be an exploitation of the Bible for the easy price of ...exactly. And that's when I had my thought.
This is our future.
I hope we don't get to a point where all we are going to be seeing is more of these sorry attempts at taking our money. And these attempts will get better and more convincing. Until finally, we, as a nation, are forced to fund the private dreams of the SeanHymans of the world. We deserve better. We, the people, have rights to pursue happyness. We, not just the clever website developers who can post a video on a website, but all of us.
So, please, don't invest just in gold. As I will not invest just in my 9-to-5. Diversify your investments as I will my various future odd jobs.
Note: When Australia had a government shutdown, the Queen fired all of Parliament. Monarchs. Cray!
