Current political situation in Ukraine, the Oil price decline and devaluation of Russian currency has made those investors to retreat.Many banks are left with RE that they can't get rid of.Predrag

I’m sure some people were bragging how smart they were keeping their reserves crypto. 

I took some risks in stocks and crypto. 

Just like none of the lenders will count any of my crypto currency as an asset because the price is too uncertain...Which I am perfectly fine with.

I would've put every penny in stocks and crypto and then sold everything off in early fall 2021.From a pure real estate perspective, I would've house hacked for a few years and bought a primary residence a year a year or two earlier than when I got it in 2016.

So it’s really hard to think of mutual funds as much of a “value driven hedge”...you probably don’t want to hide gold bars under your bed...bonds don’t pay squat...good luck with crypto...etc.

Good luckTrue, but unfortunately there has been asset inflation on all real estate investment alternatives also… the stock market, crypto, etc.  

(tax benefits or for currency inflation reasons), then that's entirely different and altogether a different discussion. :)

In the aftermath of Financial Crisis of 2008, people were expecting Financial Armageddon and we would return to our ancient ways of not using fiat currency ("not worth a continental").

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