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2019-01-10 Economy

Cash can beat stocks in returns and happiness

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-10 03:20|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I have always been an advocate of having a min 6 months operating cash in case of emergencies like a layoff. A year is better...

Posted by BrerRabbit 2019-01-10 07:00|| 2019-01-10 07:00|| Front Page Top

#2 ...or two years calculating, that while there will be significant regional spikes (particularly in NIMBY locations), inflation on certain commodities.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-10 09:09|| 2019-01-10 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Cash on hand is good unless the goverment cranks up the printing presses and there is hyperinfation as in the Weimar Republic.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-10 11:04|| 2019-01-10 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 ..what do you mean 'unless', that's what the Fed did for 8 years under Obean. Those half million dollar homes and their paper that went to quarter million dollar homes and paper in 2009 are now back to half a million. Meanwhile the peasants are paying double for gas, bread, milk, etc.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-10 11:37|| 2019-01-10 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 That's good inflation whereby the taxpayers fund an asset class that does nothing for the productivity of the economy, the establishment protection agency AKA the fed will worry about all those workers not being fined so much and getting pay rises.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-10 12:44|| 2019-01-10 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 The federal reserve is also a threat

Posted by warthogswife 2019-01-10 13:26|| 2019-01-10 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I sold 100% of my stock portfolio. In 2007.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-01-10 15:13|| 2019-01-10 15:13|| Front Page Top

#8 over the past 10 years, the S&P (based on various exchange traded funds) has, on average, risen by about 10% a year (compounded and assuming dividends were reinvested)

this is true even though in 2018 the S&P lost about 5%

Posted by lord garth 2019-01-10 21:30|| 2019-01-10 21:30|| Front Page Top

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