Comments on: Are you prepared for stagflation? http://earlyretirementextreme.com/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html --- a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, and applied capitalism Fri, 25 May 2012 19:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Play School Activities http://earlyretirementextreme.com/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html/comment-page-1#comment-33956 Play School Activities Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:58:21 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/02/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html#comment-33956 Keep watching the global shift away from US Dollars as reserve currency. The US economy is now being propped up by central banks like the Federal Reserve and the European central banks to protect reserves but the bubbles are bursting everywhere. We no longer have a robust domestic manufacturing base so this one is going to approach the bad old days of the 1970s. Hope I'm wrong but prepared for austere days ahead. Keep watching the global shift away from US Dollars as reserve currency. The US economy is now being propped up by central banks like the Federal Reserve and the European central banks to protect reserves but the bubbles are bursting everywhere. We no longer have a robust domestic manufacturing base so this one is going to approach the bad old days of the 1970s.
Hope I’m wrong but prepared for austere days ahead.

]]> By: namesarehardtopick http://earlyretirementextreme.com/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html/comment-page-1#comment-16118 namesarehardtopick Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:17:16 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/02/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html#comment-16118 Index fund investing carries risk that no one seems to admit: if the economic situations are dire for a significant period of time, betting your retirement on that is quite dangerous. To think that in eighteen years the Nikkei hasn't gone far. Index fund investing carries risk that no one seems to admit: if the economic situations are dire for a significant period of time, betting your retirement on that is quite dangerous. To think that in eighteen years the Nikkei hasn’t gone far.

]]> By: Simplicity in Kansas http://earlyretirementextreme.com/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html/comment-page-1#comment-332 Simplicity in Kansas Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:05:35 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/02/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html#comment-332 Agree with the recession comment for sure. I have been thinking and blogging the same concern for a while on the economy. I do view the economy will be in for a downturn that is not a 'soft landing' as so many pundits were claiming the past 12 months. As far as stagflation, unemployment is increasing and if ones takes out the spin of the BLS (Bureau of Labor Stats) of people who have stop looking for a job or structural un-employed, the real un-employment number is higher. I have not done the math as of late yet think it places 1 percent on the rate of unemployed or a little more which is a huge number. I am concerned about stagflation given the deceleration of asset values that have been inflated the past several years. Agree with the recession comment for sure. I have been thinking and blogging the same concern for a while on the economy. I do view the economy will be in for a downturn that is not a ‘soft landing’ as so many pundits were claiming the past 12 months. As far as stagflation, unemployment is increasing and if ones takes out the spin of the BLS (Bureau of Labor Stats) of people who have stop looking for a job or structural un-employed, the real un-employment number is higher. I have not done the math as of late yet think it places 1 percent on the rate of unemployed or a little more which is a huge number. I am concerned about stagflation given the deceleration of asset values that have been inflated the past several years.

]]> By: DNA http://earlyretirementextreme.com/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html/comment-page-1#comment-324 DNA Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:36:17 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/02/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html#comment-324 Fortunately, the Japanese have had savings rates that have ranged from 3.1% to over 10% during the years when the Nikkei stagnated, so they'll have something to fall back on. Meanwhile, in the U.S....savings went negative. Fortunately, the Japanese have had savings rates that have ranged from 3.1% to over 10% during the years when the Nikkei stagnated, so they’ll have something to fall back on. Meanwhile, in the U.S….savings went negative.

]]> By: fathersez http://earlyretirementextreme.com/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html/comment-page-1#comment-315 fathersez Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:54:08 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/02/are-you-prepared-for-stagflation.html#comment-315 THis is powerful stuff, ERE. I think many of the readers of blogs may not remember the days when the yen reined supreme and the classy business magazines were quoting eminent investment bankers that the Nikkei would go to, I don't remember, 50 or 70K. And a sq. ft in Tokyo could buy a couple of acres in NYC, maybe a little exagerated. Now the Nikkei looks so depressing. The scenario you have painted reminds me of Ravi Batra's "The Depression of 1990". THis is powerful stuff, ERE.

I think many of the readers of blogs may not remember the days when the yen reined supreme and the classy business magazines were quoting eminent investment bankers that the Nikkei would go to, I don’t remember, 50 or 70K.

And a sq. ft in Tokyo could buy a couple of acres in NYC, maybe a little exagerated.

Now the Nikkei looks so depressing.

The scenario you have painted reminds me of Ravi Batra’s “The Depression of 1990″.

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