{"id":18543,"date":"2016-03-06T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18543"},"modified":"2016-03-06T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T21:31:11","slug":"these-7-things-are-better-than-paper-money-in-the-bank-when-the-economy-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18543","title":{"rendered":"These 7 Things Are Better Than Paper Money In the Bank When the Economy Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2016\/03\/these-7-things-are-better-than-paper-money-in-the-bank-when-the-economy-collapses.html\" target=\"_blank\">These 7 Things Are Better Than Paper Money In the Bank When the Economy Collapses<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>So you\u2019ve done the hard work of getting your finances in order and now you\u2019re looking to invest your hard-earned surplus into things that will protect or grow it.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping your savings as fiat currency in the the banks may not be the safest way to store your wealth.\u00a0Banks are beginning to give concrete evidence of actually penalizing you for keeping your money with them \u2026 and that\u2019s if they don\u2019t outright confiscate it via bank bail-in.<\/p>\n<p>It would be prudent to look at investments that offer the dual purpose of getting around the banking system, while also offering ways to stockpile the tangible items that should fare much better in any economic collapse situation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are seven investments that will hold value far better than cash if the current trends continue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are beginning to see in real-real time what a collapse in the food supply could mean.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/venezuela-is-out-of-food-heres-what-an-economic-collapse-really-looks-like-02132016\">One look at Venezuela<\/a>\u00a0should prove that even though most people believe \u201cit could never happen here\u201d or even that they have enough money to get what they need no matter what, this is not the case.\u00a0 Even the supposedly wealthy in Venezuela are waiting in long lines with everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>While things are still relatively stable, it makes sense to build a food stockpile slowly but surely. You can\u00a0 pick up a few key food items each week at the supermarket to build up your food bank without having to spend thousands in bulk food acquisitions. It\u2019s best to keep your storable food bank list simple and concentrate on common foods that you already consume regularly. We wrote an article geared toward foods that have long shelf lives but are also practical for most diets, so please read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2012\/10\/10-best-survival-foods-at-your-local.html\">\u201c10 Best Survival Foods At Your Local Supermarket.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These 7 Things Are Better Than Paper Money In the Bank When the Economy Collapses So you\u2019ve done the hard work of getting your finances in order and now you\u2019re looking to invest your hard-earned surplus into things that will protect or grow it. Keeping your savings as fiat currency in the the banks may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[8126,63,4174,150,236,309,319,12783,3286,3033,12781,643,647,702,766,866,12782,868],"class_list":["post-18543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-activist-post","tag-banks","tag-bitcoin","tag-collapse","tag-economic-collapse","tag-fiat-currency","tag-food","tag-hand-tools","tag-investment","tag-land","tag-off-grid-power","tag-power","tag-precious-metals","tag-savings","tag-survival","tag-water","tag-water-purification","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18544,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543\/revisions\/18544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}