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I’ll stick with less cash and more hard assets.

The real inflation rate is a bit over 7%. If you are saving cash and it's just sitting you are losing 7% a year. How many years until the crash?

S&P index was up nearly 16% last year, the Nasdaq index up 43% last year. Might as well open a Schwab account and let it sit there until the crash.

Saw some semi-auto Barrett .50's on sale yesterday.

Two assets do well in inflationary times, cash flowing real estate and stocks...... problem is both seem to be entering bubble territory.....or not?
Perilous times for an investor.

A lot less than 5k? Lol

Blood and semen.

Depends on what it makes..

Some people may be able to do it, but when I tried in 1982-1994, all I did was loose money.
I bought Cisco and Microsoft and all the things that would have made me rich, but I sold at a loss at the first down turn.

I lost so much money, that if someone could figure out what I did, and do the opposite, they would get rich.

Then I switched from being a technical market timer, to a fundamentalist long term investor.


What is the long term annual compounded return on:
Gold 3%
Guns 3%
Guitars 3%
Real estate 6%
Real estate [with 20% down payment] = 30%
Stocks 9%
Google over 27 years = 12%
Amazon over 24 years = 35%
Microsoft over 35 years = 25%
Apple over 40 years = 19%
paccar over 41 years = 11%
purchasing power of US dollar over 50 years = -3.7%

LOL

It's interesting how many people think that what worked in the past will just keep working forever, as if this country isn't fundamentally changing for the worse, and doing so at an ever accelerating rate.

It's not actually prosperity caused by this joke biden fool... it is actually a precursor to the inflation that is actually occurring.

Over and over I hear people say that there is no inflation because the CPI says there is no inflation.

The CPI is set by the Bureau of Labor Statistics which is the federal government.

Of course they're going to say there is no inflation. They lie about everything.

If the cost of building materials has gone up 400% half of that is potentially seasonal and half of it is true inflation. If your stock portfolio has gone up 200% you are at best keeping even.

Right, but you might need to change your screen name.

Have to adapt to change. Hence the crypto vs precious metals. And Tech Still good, diversify add actual commodities in rough times

LOL...

I get that all the time. My screen name came about a dozen or so years ago on another forum. I had a Browning shotgun for sale and I kept getting trade offers of broken microwave ovens and spinner rims with curb rash. Figured Cash Is King got to this point rather quickly that I wasn't abundantly interested in trade offers of crap for quality.

EXACTLY...

You CPI tracking guys... are the above included in the CPI?

Maybe more like Argentina. It was at one time one of the wealthiest countries on earth. Then they learn to make money out of thin air. As Ben Franklin said "experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other". What we are doing has been tried before and the immutable laws governing economics are immutable.

When I was in college in 1971, I was shocked to learn most college students do not understand percentages.
Imagine when they see a supply demand curve. If you have enough supply, the demand goes negative.

watching the futures market is part of farming. it's surprising how many think using futures to hedge is 'funny business' and is unfair.

I should have put <humor>.

The Biden prosperity is a bubble crammed with different flavors of bulshit.