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by AstralStorm 2096 days ago
Defensive assets such as fully owning a place to live and means to travel, you mean? Or perhaps tools of the trade?

Bonds are not defensive enough. The about only way to lose a place to live you actually own is to live in a warzone or get very deep in debt...

The old adage is to not gamble your life on being able to pay a debt. This is rather hard in the USA due to completely broken economics of medicine, education and real estate, but in other places, much more available.