017 Stock Market thread
12-05-2018, 02:54 PM
Quote: (12-05-2018 01:50 PM)Road_Less_Taken Wrote:
Cash is useless, slow death from inflation. At least buy some short term treasuries, or something. Just don't have your money there collecting dust.
Obviously cash is just a short term solution - as long as the Fed is tightening, you can get a tolerable 2-3% in CDs and short term treasuries with nearly zero risk, compared with losing money as the stock market and real estate decline. With US shale producers able to kick in with higher oil prices and electric vehicles slowly penetrating the market, I don't see an oil price spike causing inflation like in the 70's. The main inflation risk is from the trade war.
Once monetary policy reverses, obviously we can revisit this thread and see where the opportunity is - maybe stocks, real estate, metals, emerging markets, etc.