Jordan Decuir I think the attractiveness of gold really depends on your definition of "crash".

With the increased use of computerized trading quick 'flash crashes' are likely to become more come rather than less, so having granular data will help to better quantify the risk.

I'm not convinced this strategy is prudent w risks that if and when investors bail out there's no retail mkt to stabilize the price and instead leads to a crash.

Any remote workers without roots in the city found it advantageous to get a NYC salary at a Buffalo cost of livingthis is why Vegas may not crash.. so many CA OR residents moving there..

I think we will see a crash in some markets, I have owned vacation rentals for 15 years and sold many of them during covid. 

Will it result in a crash?

By "staying the course", I mean invest wisely, diversify, look for bargains in both real estates and stocks, and always have some cash reserves.If I sell all my investments now because some book says the ultimate crash might happen by 2016, then what the hell am I going to do for the next 4 years?

When the real estate market crashed a few years back, did any park owners have to lower their lot rates (i.e if house cost are dropping doesn't the bottom have to drop as well)?

the stock markets crashed worldwide because of the lack of regulation of lending practices in the housing market that was set up about 10 years ago by Clinton (um, liberal), money was lent to people for housing who could not afford to pay it back, and mortgages were sold sliced diced and priced on worldwide stock markets as securities backed by property assets... the assumption was that housing prices would defy gravity and forever rise and the market would forever cooperate. if the Liberals (or for that matter the masses) read the "Economics in One Lesson" book the current Liberal monetary policies would cease to exist because they are illogical and do not work. would you lend money to people who can't pay it back?

There's nothing positive going on in the market besides two things: a) unemployment is down (negated by decreasing participation rate) b) inflation close to fed target (skewed due to energy crashing).