Wall Street Apocalypse: Doomsday Investor Recommends Farmland Retreat For When The Hammer Finally Drops
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Wall
Street Apocalypse: Doomsday Investor
Recommends Farmland Retreat For When
The
Hammer Finally Drops
Predictions of the end of civilization
are
nothing new, but the direst
prognosticators
have, traditionally, existed on the
fringes of
society, where their dark visions can
be
comfortably attributed to an excess of
libertarianism or a shortage of
Prozac. In the
last few years, however, something
strange has
happened. While there is no lack of
survivalists stockpiling cat food and
rifles,
some of the direst thinkers are now
working on
Wall Street, where a combination of
fear and
foresight has many of the country's
money men
contemplating their escape routes. The
patron
saint of the Wall Street apocalypse
society
may be Barton Biggs. The leader of
Traxis
Partners, a multibillion-dollar hedge
fund,
Biggs has gained a reputation for his
dire
predictions, particularly those of his
much-quoted 2008 analysis of World War
II, Wealth,
War and Wisdom. At the end of the
book,
Biggs offers his conclusions from his
brief
study of history, suggesting the
likelihood of
a future era in which "People with
wealth" will face "another time of
cholera when the Four Horsemen will
ride again
and the barbarians unexpectedly will
be at their
gate." Biggs offers some
interesting
advice for hedging the apocalypse. In
addition
to prescribing a highly diversified
portfolio
heavily invested in equity
instruments, Biggs
also advises that his readers buy
farms to
which they can retreat when the hammer
drops.