@Samuel SedoreI know I sound like an old fart, but things were looking up in 1978 as well .. we'd just come out of the oil embargo and were chugging along in our recovery.  

Gas embargo, the steel mills closing down ;( Now the politic and economic has turned around. with Marcellus shale and the municipality wanting this to go forward too.

Inflation is the worst enemy of cash holdings and Ally Bank’s 1.85 is not going to hold up to the cost increases with the Trump embargoes, but not a lot of options out there hence the op question.

.- however, the 30YFRM doesn't create a bull run in real estate except during mid of 1970s, there were several things happening in the 70's : the disconnection between gold and the dollar and creating a disconnection between wage and productivity; and the massive inflation due to oil shortage of OPEC embargo.

The 30YFR overnight rate jump from 5.3% to 5.85%.Some analyst started thinking, the 30 YFR from now on will be 5.5-6.5% for medium term.If you notice this is still OK considering it's actually the rate in 2009-2010.However what's the different than 2009, is house PSF has 2-3x appreciation, stock index also has 2x than normalized valuation.However, if we examine the inflation, most core inflation occured actually because of oil and gas pricing, especially due to demand in Europe and Russian embargo.

The market changes constantly based on outside variables (G.I bills, oil embargo, pandemic, war, dot-com bubble, etc.).

Being a Brit I now can't understand this stupid embargo.

Here is a link to the NY Times ~ March 6 1933:http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/gold_hoarders_nytimes_1933.jpgThe headline states: "Roosevelt Orders 4 Day Bank Holiday, Puts Embargo on Gold, Calls Congress"Coincidentally (or perhaps not), on the same day the front page also has this: "Hitler Bloc Wins a Reich Majority; Rules in Prussia"The difference, however, between today and the US back then is that they were on the gold standard.

I think the issue is there is only a few places to get the stuff.and I hear ya on the power outages for sure.. but nothing is perfect.. remember the oil embargos LOL.. 

Cuba could be an upside bet if Obama finally kills the trade embargo. in all of these countries, go into urban areas.