Forget stocks... Gold is really the only way to go ... as governments world wide try to maintain elite asset prices by money printing... Gold is just a no brainer at this point...with perhaps silver and oil and other "hard assets" ....
As to other things...? Perhaps buying physical assets or real estate at EXTREMELY DISTRESSED PRICES...is a possible investment... But even these should be bought only if you personally can find some use for them...not "on spec"... Real Estate is subject to high taxes...and can be a money pit...
Cash is being printed but not widely distributed to the masses...because of the lingering effects of the failed "supply side" economics... This is the notion that "If you build it they will come"...
Of course they aren't "coming" because they are jobless and broke...but that is the great debate of our times...the failure of trickle down economics...and the disaster of Free Trade on the local economies...
Otherwise paying off ALL DEBTS...and HOARDING CASH ... outside of gold is probably the best way to enter this continuing long term economic depression...