Subject: Re: Investing with an eye on rising authoritarianism
Don't worry, be happy! Check out the five year chart for SVXY (about 1200 trading days, keying off Jim's turkey chart of 1000 days).
https://finance.yahoo.com/quot...
37% CAGR and 29% maxdrawdown!

SVXY is a short vol fund, IOW it bets that volatility (technically, vol futures) will be low, as in "don't worry, be happy!".
Well, vol usually is low so that's usually a good bet.
Except when it isn't, check out the "All" chart that includes Feb 5 2018

To be quite clear: I'm joking. SVXY is a turkey.