Quote from: westkybitcoins on July 31, 2011, 07:55:16 PM

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c) I would have just said income-producing assets, but just being able to generate cash probably won't cut it. Rental properties will continue to be worse and worse in this regard as inflation surges, especially considering the market crash isn't over yet.

I read in an analysis of the Wiemar Germany hyperinflation that savers got slaughtered of course. Holders of stock in companies actually came out of the other side relatively OK.

The most interesting thing to me was rental property owners. Apparently during the crisis they had problems in that rent controls came in early on creamed them over the course of the event. On the other side, they still had their property, though it is my assumption that they did not do much maintenance during the event.

I expect that a problem in Oceana would/will be somewhat different (if hyperinflative at all.) The people who got chased out of 'their' homes when the real estate bubble popped will be large in number and irritable about things, and the governments at all levels are particularly hungry for revenue. I theorize that there will be a backlash against people who have more homes than they need and onerous taxes will be levied.

For this reason, I limited my own investment in this class. I have only enough real estate property to fly pretty much under the radar (I hope) and/or assist my immediate family members should they happen to end up in need.