Did you know that in 1781, a pair of shoes in Virgina cost $5,000 and a full set of clothes cost $1 Million?

The FED is off to the side, busy creating fiat currency and devaluing the US Dollar.

If deflation gets to bad the fed's actions may spark a devaluing of the US currency.

Perhaps if we did not have the Fed, and tied our currency back to gold instead of having a fiat currency.

I happen to trade currency instead of stocks for a variety of reasons...BUTI agree that it's good to be involved with RE AND trading.

Shari aren't you worried that 4% would hurt inflation by drastically lowering the value of the dollar in foriegn currency markets

I say do Both...but I actively trade currency and It's kind of nice not to have to deal with people, banks and properties when you are trading ;D I can do much better than 10% per year trading on my own, but there's +'s and -'s with any investment.But I enjoy doing both so I can't see me giving up one to do the other solely.

The impact of this disparity was partly offset bylarge exchange-rate changes resulting from strong appreciation of most majorforeign currencies against the U.S. dollar, which raised the dollar value ofU.S.

People often wire the supply to one pair of screws and then the feed to the next outlet to the other set.

removing us from using a worthless fiat currency and a central banking system.