To give you a better idea of what "affordable" used to mean:
A house used to cost 2 times the average annual salary in 1943. Today, it's 9 times. The average from 1914 to 1968 is 3.
The entire Dow could be purchased for 5% of the average annual salary in 1932. Today, it's 38%. The average from 1930 to 1995 is 12%.
100 barrels of oil could be purchased for 7% of the average annual salary in 1998. Today, it's 39%. The average from 1914 to 2004 is 15%. Not even in 1980, at the peak of the oil shocks, was the cost of oil (relative to average salary) so great.
So there you have it folks. The only conclusion is that these three assets MUST "deflate" (fall in price) over the next few years by as much as 60%!
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Panic
John Mills observed: “Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal in hopelessly unproductive works.”
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Wojciech B mowi
Ale ja jestem większym optymistą. W moich "wizjach" rzeczywiście wchodzimy w lata 30-te, ale - wiem, że to zabrzmi niezrozumiale - niejako "od strony przyszłości". Zanim więc dotrzemy do deflacyjnej katastrofy lat 1929-1932 (moim zdaniem rozpocznie się ona w 2017-tym, może 216-tym) przed nami jeszcze superhossa inflacyjna z lat 1932-1937 (która powinna rozegrać się od 2012-tego, może od 2011-tego, a spodowowana migracją kapitałów z Japonii zagrożonych spadkiem wartości w wyniku polityki monetyzacji tamtejszego długu publicznego, której wprowadzenie w 10-tą rocznicę wprowadzenia "quantitative easing" jest moim zdaniem nieuniknione). ;-)
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