If what he says is correct, then your HDGE strategy may not work since the financial markets will all be closed, and the HDGE position plus anything else in a brokerage account or money market fund, will be frozen.
If there's a significant period of time between the stock market collapse and the closure/lockdown of the markets, you might have time to take profits in HDGE, but if you keep the proceeds within the brokerage account, it will soon be frozen along with everything else.
Physical gold/silver and cash (in the form of paper notes physically held outside of a financial institution) may be the only way to avoid the lockdown/freeze. If you leave money in a bank, brokerage account, or money market fund, you won't have access to it for months, and due to the bail in laws and the 'new paradigm' in the aftermath of the crisis, who knows what degree of haircut these funds might suffer. So it doesn't seem like a viable option to just leave these funds sitting in a financial institution and expect to be made whole after the crisis is over.
Sheesh, what a mess. It looks like this scenario is coming, the only question being when. So - 1) crisis, 2) lockdown, 3) SDRs, plus the associated social turmoil and police state response. So we're in a heap of trouble. Let's hope the elites get cold feet and postpone this plan. It's possible they prefer to delay this risky plan for as long as they can, but based on what Rickards says, it sounds like they're about ready to light the match.
While Rickards is obviously trying to sell books and his newsletter, his extensive Deep State backround and contacts could make him their 'designated leaker'.
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