Escape the Dollar: Intro to Real Assets That Hold Value

The dollar is losing value by the day. Real assets offer a way out—if you move before the collapse takes hold.

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Jun 10, 2025
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Escape the Dollar: Intro to Real Assets That Hold Value

When the dollar dies, paper wealth dies with it.

Savings accounts. Bonds. Pensions. Government promises. All of them are only as strong as the currency they’re tied to—and that currency is breaking.

If you want to survive what’s coming, you need to escape the dollar. That doesn’t mean abandoning it entirely—it means hedging against its decline by moving part of your wealth into real assets that can’t be printed, inflated away, or manipulated by politics.

This post is your primer on real assets—what they are, why they matter, and how to start shifting into them before the storm hits.


What Are Real Assets?

Real assets are physical or tangible things that hold inherent value—unlike fiat currencies or digital entries in a bank account.

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