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- From: stassen@alc.com (Chris Stassen)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: A sad day for America
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.204046.8186@alc.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:40:46 GMT
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- Gary James Patalsky <gp2f+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > I say America will have double digit inflation, interest rates and
- > unemployment by June.
-
- Inflation is low and likely to go higher, but don't bet the house on
- reaching 10%. Slightly higher inflation might not be a bad sign for
- the economy; it's hard to achieve fast growth without it.
-
- Double digits for mortgage (interest) rates are not far away. 30-year
- fixed mortgage rates are over 8% now (8.3 as of today). This is the
- one prediction of yours that wouldn't be surprising if it were right.
-
- Unemployment is, IMO, likely to stay about the same or go down. It
- would require that the Clinton administration will do something REALLY
- dumb (like shutting down much of the military and defense industry
- without shifting the money to creating jobs elsewhere).
-
- ======
-
- Today's "San Jose Mercury News" carried a feature in the business section
- called "How to survive Clintonomics" (they endorsed Clinton, by the way,
- so they're not speaking from a position of bias against his policies).
- Their advice (DISCLAIMER: I don't endorse this advice):
-
- 1. Get a fixed-rate mortgage; rates are bound to go up. The Merc says
- that if you plan to stay at least four years, it is probably worth
- the money to refinance if your variable loan can't be converted.
-
- 2. Invest in "growth" companies; they ought to outperform the stock
- market in general because they will benefit most from the incentives
- in Clinton's plan.
-
- 3. Hedge against inflation if a good opportunity arises; for reasons
- above it is likely to go higher. Traditional hedges (such as
- precious metals) may perform well under higher inflation rates.
-
- 4. Have a long-term strategy. One needn't worry too much about the
- administration as long as one is content to invest for the long haul.
- Investing "not to lose" generally beats "trying to make a killing."
-
- > If Clinton could not run the small state of Arkansas,
- > what is he going to do to America?
-
- Actually, Clinton did reasonably well in Arkansas. However, his prime
- means of causing job growth was attracting industry from other parts of
- the country (by being more "industry-friendly" than other states). That
- strategy doesn't scale up to a national level.
- --
- Chris Stassen 408-943-0630 stassen@alc.com
-