Re: investing reserve funds | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Brian Bartholomew (bartholomew.brianyahoo.com) | |
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:29:03 -0700 (PDT) |
> From where are you getting your statistic about an 8% inflation rate? The second chart on this web page describes consumer price inflation as computed by the consumer price index formula used in 1980. More recent consumer price index formulas don't count major costs like heating fuel and gasoline: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts > In the inflationary days of the early 80s people did buy all kinds > of goods and services trying to beat the inflation rate If people believe the inflation rate is 2 to 3%, they will not pursue those countermeasures. | The Fed has been trying in recent years to get inflation up to 2% | without much success I believe both that measurement number and that description of currency policy cause and effect are factually incorrect. The book I like best on the subject is free in pdf at: https://mises.org/library/mystery-banking | we'll be able to replace the roof [...] twenty years after move-in 20 years of compounded 8% loss means you have 21% of the original purchasing power left. What kind of roof could you get today, if you could only spend 1/4 of what you intended to? I expect a compensating technological growth in roof technology which will get you more roof for less labor and materials, but I wouldn't want to bet it will be a positive 8% over 20 years. > Where are you from? And do You have a Cohousing community with > Which you are associated? I was originally sold on coho in Florida as a way to share the garden tools and the cooking, and I still believe in that. My project ended when zoning requirements for fancy sidewalks nearly doubled the price. Many couldn't afford it, and I wasn't going to waste my money. A house is not an investment or a savings method, it is a durable good which wears out, like an automobile. House value doesn't increase over time any more than car resale prices do. The Boomers retiring is changing the ratio of pay-ins/pay-outs for Social Security. Due to these demographics, retirement payments from the current system will fade out. When the Boomers can no longer afford to pay for as much medical labor in their nursing homes, they will reorganize the nursing homes into elder cohos; the architecture is fine as-is. Coho may be a niche trend today, but it will be mainstream before you retire. Supporting their retired parents with their own labor will move the working parents in, along with their children. The grandparents will watch and parent the children. Imagine the Midwestern stereotype of the small town of family farms with 20 acres and a tractor, and neighbors going to the same church. Half the neighbors are family, habitations clustered on a dead end street with greenspace surrounding. Why not share tractors, barns, assembly halls? Why pay for individual copies of these expensive items which sit idle 80% of the time? It is not obvious to me that cohousing can't do farming without also doing income sharing; can't do light industrial production on site; will only appeal to knowledge workers; can't have a pet policy which describes who responds when the dogs tree an opossum in the orchard at 3am; and must cost $500K/unit, or even $100K/unit. Brian
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