Buy Farmland and Gold - Get Ready For Tough Times Ahead

Dr. Marc Faber, the man who predicted the1987liberals, separatists and government.
stock market crash one week in advance, as well asThe pile of borrowed wealth is declining rapidly in
being among only a few who accurately predictedAmerica since banks can no longer collateralize loans
the current financial meltdown, is now advisingwith gimmicks, such as bogus mortgages, and
investors to move out into the countryside where ittherefore borrowing will be curtailed, resulting in
will be safer, and accumulate gold ("because it can beeveryone being at each other's throats, fighting over
carried"). This new dire prediction of social andthe scraps that are left since recent generations
financial upheaval the likes of which we have neverhave only known the good times, and will have no
seen, was recently made in Tokyo.patience to endure hard times, which portends
He went on to declare that the next war we facetoward violence.
will be a "dirty war" predicting acts of terror rightDr. Faber's intuition might be also correct when he
here in our homeland where electronicsays that China and America will experience growing
communications, (cell phones, computers), poisoningmilitary tensions over access to limited oil resources.
of public water supplies and food supplies will not beHe said that costs currently are running about $70.00
off limits. Therefore homes in the farmlands will bea barrel just to produce oil, which precludes new
less exposed to biological attacks and general urbanmoney going toward exploration of new fields.
violence.So we will pretty much have to live with what we
Couple this with new findings that militia groups in thehave now, which is a dwindling supply and what's
United States have increased from just over abeing siphoned off at increasing speed considering
hundred last year to over five hundred this year, andthat emerging markets now use more oil than
we can see the scenario coming to fruition wheredeveloped markets. As a hint of things to come, one
ingrained, incorrigible differences of opinion will beof China's hawkish generals recently made the public
soon settled at gun point, one gang against thecomment that his nuclear weapons, as they now
other.stand, could destroy hundreds of American cities.
And there are plenty of gangs all over the country,Whether or not America goes to war with China is
not only in urban areas, but organized quasi-militaryuncertain, but Dr. Faber intimated that America will,
groups all over rural America well hidden in the hills. Ifwithin not too many years, find someone to go to
you venture into some remote areas, you can hearwar with because that will be the only alternative to
the automatic gunfire. The next dirty war mightbankruptcy, brought on by the inability to service its
easily be fought at home as a second civil warmushrooming debt.
between socialists and capitalists, conservatives and