Financial Collapse In the Next Few Years?
You hear the warnings daily. "Prepare for the next market crash" or "Financial Apocalypse" and worse. Some folks sincerely believe it will happen, some sooner than later. While others are just trying to sell you something playing on your fears. The CEO of Overstock.com Patrick Byrne believes there is a 10 - 20 percent chance that a financial disaster could happen in the next few years.
“So many signs tell me this country has lost its way, with a bankrupt business model,”
Patrick Byrne has been stockpiling gold and silver to the tune of $10 million so far. And loading up emergency preparation kits to feed his 2000 employees for up to 60 days.
http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/ceo-prepares-for-economic-apocalypse-by-hording-gold/
These reserves, according to Johnson, are in preparation for an inevitable financial crisis.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/overstock-stockpiling-gold-food-financial-120053634.html
“We have food and gold, but we don’t walk around with guns or something. We’re not preppers,” Byrne told The Post. Really? Just because you don't stockpile weapons and ammo doesn't mean you are not a prepper. The mere fact that you want to be prepared for potential scenarios and take action makes you a prepper. After all, what is a prepper?
Currently, the gold and silver at Overstock make up about 10% of their liquid assets. This move has raised a lot of eyebrows, but also garnered a great deal of appreciation and approval from others. Especially the Overstock employees.
If the company you worked for provided this "prepping" service, would you continue to be prepared on your own? Or would you continue on with your own prepping? What if the government provide a service like this? Would you trust it?
At any rate its great to see someone in Patrick Byrne's position take action and not just for himself, but is also looking out for those who look up to him.
Image credit: occupycorporatism.com
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