As for tapering, I see it as necessary to avoid higher inflation and further devaluation of our currency, but it will really shake things up, especially in housing.These two items don't include a generic correction like what you describe.

That must have set off a Form 8300 and a Currency Transaction Report.

Mike The is no denying that The Big Mac Index is great for bringing to light the purchasing power of a dollar against other currencies.

War, interest rates, currency problems, an asteroid, who knows.

Now my parents are passed away, and I've managed to sell a piece of the land they left as inheritance and I have US$35,000 in brazilian currency.

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Give it another 2 to 5 years and still no guarantees since with fiscal cliff we have looming issues with debt that is directly related to another issue the coming currency crisis.

In one, I make all the decisions, in the other, I have to hope China doesn't reposition their currency.

Try reading this book by John Bogle:Enough.You clearly have more than enough money to do a blend of passive index investing and summarily discard the notion that you need to spend any additional effort for the rest of you or your family's life on anything as banal as the pursuit of additional pieces of currency that add no real value to your life.  

Just a few options you have to invest in are: residential and commercial real estate, undeveloped or raw land, real estate notes (mortgages and deeds of trusts), private limited partnerships (limited liability companies and C corporations), tax lien certificates, foreign currencies, and oil and gas investments to name a few.