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- From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
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- Subject: Re: Act Now to Fight the Deficit
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:45:37 GMT
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- In article <1k3uiuINNpn5@hpfcbig.sde.hp.com> gt@fc.sde.hp.com (George Tatge) writes:
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- >Gordon Hamachi (hamachi@adobe.com) wrote:
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- >: I've read "Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It"
- >: by Harry Figgie, and it scares the hell out of me. According to Figgie, the
- >: most likely results of inaction on the deficit are:
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- >: A catastrophic market panic
- >: Hyperinflation
- >: 20% of American jobs gone
- >: Social Security payments cut or eliminated
-
-
- >Excuse my extreme skepticism. If you are really convinced that this
- >is all going to happen, why don't you just take the appropriate
- >measures to get rich when it does? I'm always hearing doomsayers
- >and almost never will they back up their predictions with their
- >money.
-
- I'm not interested in profiting from such a calamity, just
- interested in not totally getting hosed. And I'm very skeptical
- of gloom and doom merchants who tell you how you can profit from
- it. Still, to protect what I have, I am establishing a reasonable
- position in gold, foreign government bonds (through unhedged
- mutual funds), and Ben Franklins.
-
- >If you've borrowed all the money you possibly can at todays low
- >interest rates and taken every penny you can lay your hands on
- >and shorted all the bank stocks and blue chips and done other
- >such pre hyperinflation sensible things than I might be more
- >inclined to listen. If not, well then it's just more chicken
- >little isn't it?
-
- Um, what if they index the principle of all loans (save theirs?)
- to inflation, as the Weimar Republic did in its hyperinflation?
- No way will your salary keep up with inflation in such a scenario.
-
- >gt
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