Shared my thoughts on various assets in collapse-like scenario in a prior thread. 
P.S. Gold is not safe! 
Didn’t realize @nithin thought of it this way. 
It’s reassuring to know he has a good moral compass. 
But that should not deter Z and other MIIs from offering or facilitating leveraged and other interesting (f.e. inverse ETFs) products in the future. 
Uninformed or reckless peeps misusing financial products (credit cards f.e.) should not be a reason to ban or restrict them. This is my libertarian view, but I’m being a hypocrite since I was writing on another thread about why it might be responsible to get rid of weekly options. I guess you need to find a right balance with these things which is easier said than done. 
What I can conclusively say on the topic is to never mis-sell these leveraged/exotic products or push them onto unsuspecting investors - have had this happen to me and my parents from both full service & discount brokerages, NBFCs, and even Big banks. Only Z IME has not yet done this! 
Uninformed peeps (which we all once were) can be nudged and given the free materials to learn. Beyond that it’s not Z’s responsibility to hand-hold their investments or trades.
I believe this perception of contradiction is limited to uninformed peeps. 
Very interesting, you were/are primarily a bond investor? 
