Recent content by thedude_IHB

what are you guys doing to protect your 6-12 month fund from inflation? Part of the fund (25%) should be in cash but the rest of it might be better placed somewhere very conservative where you can at least keep track with inflation. We are in a serious hole of debt in this country at the...

Desire will never equal affordability. If the average household income for Irvine really is 90-100K then what you see MUST be over priced. My wife and I are fresh out of college for 1 year and we make a middle 6 figure income with no debt. School, cars, and Coach handbags are paid for. I...

I trust this board has enough collective experience to help me wrap my feeble mind around this situation. As a person in the twenties I clearly remember the tech bust but I've got no personal understanding of what went down in the 70s and 80s. So 1 and 10 people need help getting food to...

When the American Dream includes living without a credit addiction at the individual and national level

I'm sure financial historians can find some value in the economic news published as of late. The details will no doubt fill text books in the future. I was hoping for a nice V shape recession and I'm feeling more like a U and hopefully not an L. I thought to myself about a year ago that there...