Worth reading on fallout for 2024 and target districts: https://nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna66584

Comparisons hiding in plain sight. FDGRX 1024% vs QQQ 687% over 6115 trading days. If you want high octane which I do not. Comparing QQQ not SPY. Not a recommendation.

John Rekenthaler wrote a follow-up column for Jeff Ptak's original article.
Voya Corporate Leaders Trust was mentioned and compared to Ptak's "Do Nothing Portfolio."
Rekenthaler's conclusions are:
1) Don’t sweat an index’s details.
2) Worry not about being fashionable.
3) A little diversification goes a long way.
I disagree with his first conclusion although he did state that low costs are a key consideration (I concur) .
Link

@lewisBraham
I don't have to write my reps, cause I live in Massachusetts. I agree in theory that democratic actions ( letters, calls, marches campaigning) would work if everyone did it, but only 50% max of the public even votes.
Most of the reps leading the charge for this crap have been gerrymandered into districts they can't loose.
My sister in Texas is gerrymandered into a very red district. Her Rep Chip Roy is one of the more extreme GOPers. He refuses to respond to her emails, and will not let anyone but registered Republicans into his town meetings. There are guards at the door checking names off the voter lists.
Her local school board just voted to require the history teachers to only teach to their students that Trump won the 2020 election and it was stolen.
Unfortunately I think until the real awful consequences of the debt ceiling refusal really hit the fan nothing will change.

Link:
https://beststocks.com/bar-harbor-bankshares-inc-reports-strong-q1-e/
Declared a dividend, as well.
From the Call:
"...Mr. Simard concluded, “Despite the ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty and potential impacts from a weakened economic condition as elevated inflation levels are tampered, we have positioned the Company for the long-term benefit to our customers and shareholders which has once again enabled us to increase our dividend per share by almost 8%. We are also extremely honored and proud to be recognized by Forbes as one of the “World’s Best Banks” in the first quarter of 2023, based largely on service and trust metrics. Of the 75 U.S.-based banks to make the list, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust is one of only three banks headquartered in Northern New England..."
DIVIDEND DECLARED
The Board of Directors of the Company voted to declare a cash dividend of $0.28 per share to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 16, 2023 payable on June 16, 2023. This dividend equates to a 4.23% annualized yield based on the $26.45 closing share price of the Company’s common stock on March 31, 2023, the last trading day of the first quarter 2023.

all sorts of good news, with some clouds as well
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20230421&instance_id=90765&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=22268089&segment_id=131035&te=1&uri=nyt://newsletter/1a494dd3-0a29-5b48-bb85-1764ebc1918a&user_id=83d45440ead1d14c2a89a1e7221337d1

So much depends on your perspective. These types of investments aren’t intended for everyone. Think of gold as “a hedge against the unexpected.” Almost by definition, “the unexpected” is that which is very unlikely to occur (political chaos, hyperinflation, asteroid strike, nuclear war).
@Jan is correct. Long term, gold shouldn’t perform as well as investments in solid growth companies. That said, precious metals tend to run to the extremes on both the up-side and down-side. As fertile ground for speculators they might be attractive if you have the stomach. If you are unable to find even a 3%-5% spot in your portfolio for that kind of hedge or speculative gambit, no problem. Life goes on.
Yes, I agree, there are obstacles to owning / trading physical gold. I’d not want that hassle. But there are, as I’m sure you are aware, funds that invest in it in various ways. Just $50 on a grocery store visit? I rarely escape for under $150. A halfway decent bottle of single malt runs $40-50 alone.
BTW - The OP was by @rono who has tracked the precious metals forever. Rono’s forgotten more about the metals than most of us ever knew. I tend to agree with his point of view. However, making such predictions about gold involves looking at the technical charts as well as trying to anticipate correctly things like geopolitics, inflation, Federal Reserve policies and how other asset classes that vie for assets will perform going forward. And, Oh I almost forgot …. the herd instincts and behavior of investors.

I must admit investing in gold and or silver doesn’t seem to make sense. I’ve seen videos of high profile investors (Schiff) swearing by it but I can’t grasp it’s usefulness.
1. Gold doesn’t seem to have done much in the last decade especially when compared to the stock market.
2. I don’t understand how it would be useful in an emergency. For instance, if I buy $50!worth of groceries the denominations of are much more.
3. If I needed to sell, say $100,000 worth of gold, could I sell it quickly?
4. As far as silver goes, it seems it would need to be stored as it’s value is not as valuable as gold.
I’ve thought of investing in gold but it seems there is more negative articles on it than positive.

That is lot of 3-yr TIPS on the secondary market. The shortest maturity at auctions is 5-yr TIPS and several posters have been mentioning those for a while; these are to be held to maturity.

That profile rang a bell. As I recall, what used to be Buffalo Science and Technology Fund (BUFTX) had a similar profile. Though in its newer incarnation (Discovery) it's a more typical MCG fund.
I did a very quick M* search for tech (40%+) and healthcare (20%+) and came up with 23 funds heavy in these two sectors. Some results (keep in mind this is a very superficial screen):
ICTEX: tech 49%, healthcare 51% (tech fund)
RSIFX: tech 55%, healthcare 32% (tech fund)
USSCX: tech 57%, healthcare 27% (tech fund)
PVIVX: tech 47%, healthcare 29% (SC blend)
ARTSX: tech 45%, healthcare 33% (SC growth)

Off to a good start in 2023, but arguably one of the very worst SCG funds over the past 5 years.
Period: % in Category
1-yr: 92%
3-yr: 99%
5-yr: 95%

Brokered CD rates may be up because many banks find it easier and cheaper to raise funds via brokered CDs (although the FDIC is watching) than through the new Fed BTFP facility and the old Fed Discount Window - those seem to have stabilized (see below from Twitter LINK).
Many banks also offer unusual 11-mo, or 13-mo CDs as those one-time deals may not show up on industry wide 12-mo, 18-mo, 24-mo offering data.

Lots of CDs at Schwab are now paying 5%. I suspect some of this may be due to the reducing fear of bank closures. I am expecting rates to go a bit higher before the end of April.

@MSF. thanks for your thoughts. The AEI is not on my reading list. My take on denialism is simply that here and on other boards the very possibility of default is hardly discussed, not that it wouldn’t be horrible. I guess as Martha Reeves would say” nowhere to run to baby, no where to hide.” And that was in 1965.

The only solution I see is if 5 or so Republicans who were elected from blue districts cross over to vote with Dems to raise the ceiling… There has been some quiet discussion of this happening
Discussion may have been quiet, but a proposal that would suspend the debt ceiling until the end of the year and includes additional work was announced yesterday by the Problem Solvers Caucus.
https://problemsolverscaucus.house.gov/media/press-releases/problem-solvers-caucus-endorses-bipartisan-debt-ceiling-framework
As I understand how this group (evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans) functions, all members commit "to vote for anything that’s endorsed by 75 percent of their caucus". That currently includes 31 House Republicans, well above the 5 or so needed.
That's likely why the press release states that their proposal "has the support of more than 75% of Problem Solvers Caucus members".

Default denialism as generally used is the idea that a default wouldn't be harmful. It was discussed to death in 2011 and 2013, e.g.
American Enterprise Institute - The Foolish Idea of Default Denialism - "A craze is sweeping the nation, the idea that failing to raise the debt limit would not be an abomination." (2013). Also cited by Barry Ritzholtz.
The lack of responses to your question "where to hide?" is not necessarily due to people viewing a default as a highly improbable hypothetical (even hypotheticals can be useful to consider). Rather you may be getting few responses because IMHO there are no good answers.
As sma3 expressed, the potential consequences are so extreme that they would either be (if possible) reversed immediately or your question about where to keep investments would become the least of your worries.
@sven - your links lead right back to your post (message 60984 in this thread). While it is true that the stock market fell following the S&P downgrade in 2011, the Treasury bond market rallied.
NPR - Developing: In Wake Of S&P Downgrade, U.S. Stocks Tumble (Aug 8, 2011)

Update at 12:57 p.m. ET. Treasury Bonds Rally:
The Wall Street Journal reports that despite the S&P downgrade, Treasury bonds are still selling briskly and the 10-year yield has fallen o the lowest level since October:

The price move underlines the dilemma confronting investors varying from the Chinese central bank to pension funds—there are few alternative safe-haven assets out there that can match the depth and liquidity of the Treasury market, with over $9.3 trillion in debt outstanding.

As observed in the AEI piece cited above, the bond market fell as actual default neared. But not as a result of any ratings agency actions.

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The only solution I see is if 5 or so Republicans who were elected from blue districts cross over to vote with Dems to raise the ceiling… There has been some quiet discussion of this happening. Those folks won’t get re-elected if there is a default so it’s the most likely scenario

VASFX up 0.5% Total in 8 years
I looked at this several times as a alternative/ macro hedge. Never seemed to figure itself out.
similar story to Market Neutral. If you are a hot gunslinging cowgirl or cowboy and really good at this stuff, who wants to have to tell your date you work at Vanguard!