:checking accounts:... hey, look at that huge account balance! Oh... wait. $#!* that's my student loan. That's DEBT. Hmm... but being optimistic again, in a big crash, maybe my student loan lender will go out of business! :-)
- Adam Lasnik
I haven't planned for it. I think about it, but I haven't planned for it. How do you plan for something like that?
- Jason Wehmhoener
I have cash and no debt and I'm ready to pick up all the bargains. :)
- Morton Fox
What's cash worth in hyperinflation? How worst case are we talking here?
- Jason Wehmhoener
You'll find me back east living off the land and returning to the agrarian subsistence lifestyle in the remote reaches of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate NY.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Jason, the USD Index has crept back up to 79. It's not a foregone conclusion that hyperinflation is the endgame. We could well end up in a depression when all of Paulson and Bernanke's reflationary measures fail. Because I do not know which scenario will play out, I actually do hold precious metals and cash in equal measure.
- Morton Fox
@Matt Your line was "crook" but you'd need to be a carmen sandiego aficionado to know that.
- EricaJoy
We're already losing our asses on Money markets and 401Ks. Trying not to think of it getting worse. Cup half full thinking for me.
- Larry Kless
well I live in the home I grew up in, aside from a small loan ($14K) it is free, assuming I keep my jobs I should be able to maintain the $215 pmt. Today was the first time that it really hit me how blessed I am to have the home and I said a prayer of thanks to God and my parents. For sometime I have felt down about not moving. So now three years after my Mom's death I guess it is time to focus on transforming this from my parent's home to mine. My car is paid off. Had planned to get a new one in Jan, but that is out the window now.
- Ruth Ferguson
move to europe or south america. that's not even a worst case scenario though. it's an option
- Cee Bee
not going to happen, at least on the same scale. Serious recession likely though
- Duncan Riley
Guess I won't be moving out of my parents house.
- Mathew™
I'm going to become bitter and turn to guns and religion.
- John Foster
I've been planning a move out of the USSA for a while now. Original plan of Dec 2009 might need to be brought forward by 6-9 months.
- Thaths