Hi TamaraScott,
thank you for your candid response. (I forgot that people can be nice on the internet). I wish that I had enough money to buy property but I simply do not. I’m a PhD Principal Research Scientist with roughly 20 years of academic research behind me (cell and molecular cancer biology) and living off of grants and fellowships for most of that time has led to me being a 40-something year old who owns nothing and is (not very) happy.
When I moved to California in 2018 to work in the private sector for a double-digit billion revenue pharmaceutical company I thought I could earn enough to save to buy a home. Five years later my savings have stopped far short of being able to buy anything as our wages keep rising far less than inflation so year on year I end up being poorer. And now I risk losing what little I have saved up which constitutes my lifetime savings. It’s a sad state of affairs.
I also liked FRB because it’s smaller size compared to the too big to fail banks implied more ethical business standards. Makes sense ‘they’ would like to demolish it and already the data suggest people are acting ‘as expected’ and withdrawing their funds to put to bigger banks.
The private armies concept from CAF is a good one, I’ll consider it.
Best of luck to you too !