>I took a page from your book and put everything I could into cash for a while. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to do that a year ago....
Putting everything to cash is fine, as long as it ain't in US$. To be on the safe side, at least part of your money should be in some foreign currency.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)