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ners like they did in 1932-34, who will want to or even be able to give you the real value for these items? Sure, some dealer will buy them - but at distress prices. You will need his money but he won't really need your diamonds, jewelry, Ming china, etc., so he'll buy them,all right, but at his price. The figure may well be higher in numbers, even much higher than you paid for it; but it won't buy the same number of loaves of bread, and that's what will count.

Bonds: Although bonds usually have an assured return, their buying and selling prices vary like stocks; so you might lose on the sale all that you made on the interest, and that is not going to be high enough to cover inflationary losses.

Treasury Notes: They are paying pretty high interest rates just now, but they still don't equal the annual loss. They are as secure as you can get, since if Uncle Sam goes under, what else can float? Unfortunately they also have to be bought in pretty good-sized amounts.

Trust Deeds, Income Property: Getting warmer, but only as long as the holders or tenants pay their payments or rent. When times get very tough, how many foreclosures do you think there will be? Will taking property back help you any? When your tenants are out of work and can't pay you, what will you do? How will you eat and pay your taxes? The trouble is that too many of those living today were too young during the Depression and can't really imagine how rough it can get.

When unemployment climbs to 10 or 12% what do you think will hap- pen? Do you think they will just sit still and starve, or, in this day of group and individual violence, do you think they will take matters into their own hands? How physically safe will you be, or your family? If you wanted to move to a safer or different locality what would you use for money? Where would you have kept your assets so that they would be both convenient, available, and with at least as much purchasing power at that time as when you acquired them?

You have been waiting to see where I am going and for the answers to these questions, haven't you? Well, I'll tell you right now, but lest you put all this aside as just another crackpot's ideas, please go out and buy a book titled "You Can Profit from the Monetary Crisis" by Harry Brown. He will explain all that I have said and much more in greater detail, but now for a thumbnail answer.