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Strategies & Market Trends : US Inflation and What To Do About It -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rr_burns who wrote (79)	5/12/2010 5:30:02 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1504

We're not going to get hyper inflation. Our Fed will raise rates until they hurt before that happens. I wouldn't be surprised to see a return to Carter-style inflation, though, which saw rates as high as 16%. That doesn't lead to currency replacement or anything. It just leads to a lot of pain. On the plus side, I'm hold enough to remember investing in CD's earning 12% back in the Carter-Reagan high inflation era. That was not a bad low risk return, especially in a stock market that wasn't doing much.