How To Protect Our Finances From A Market Crisis?

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]With the stock market nose diving and banks failing every other day, it's natural to think about protecting our hard earned money and assets from the current financial crisis. For a common person, most of his/her assets are either stowed away as savings in a bank account, or invested in a portfolio in the