Buy your wheel barrow while you still can.

[Renew Deal]

Because now that the bailout passed, you will need it to carry your money for a loaf of bread.



http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100325962&categoryID=501674

[Warpy]

1. I have a very large and aggressively ugly rolling suitcase

that will do the job nicely and with far more panache, thanks.

[baldguy]

2. They'll just print a few million of these

Without the words "Gold Certificate" of course.

[liberal renegade]

4. I'd be happy with one,i'm not greedy.

[baldguy]

5. Remember, you'll need two to fill your gas tank.

If you've still got a car, that is.

[cutlassmama]

6. most people will need a car

to sleep in

[baldguy]

17. Would that be a fixed rate loan?

Or a sub-prime with a variable APR?

[tjwash]

3. I've already been growing my own food...so I'll just go back to the barter system.

nt

[spinbaby]

7. A tale from my mother

My grandmother came from a German family that was quite well off, even considering the damage wrought by the Great War. When her parents died, she and her sister each inherited a substantial amount of money. Her sister bought a small farm with a house. My grandmother saved her money and, when she got married, used it to buy a frying pan.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. In Germany, they did use wheelbarrels of worthless Deutschmarks to buy a single bar of butter.

In the afternoon, they would need two wheelbarrels to buy the butter.

Germany printed fiat money in order to satisfy the demanded war reparations to be paid to France, England, . . . and Wall Street.

[spinbaby]

9. So what do you think?

Should I forget about saving money and think about buying a farm and stockpiling food?

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Interesting you say that. I've been thinking about that myself.

No rhetoric. Truly.

[spinbaby]

13. I get tired just thinking about it

We're too old to farm. If we were twenty years younger it would have been an option. We've been saving like maniacs all our working lives--we should be getting ready to retire now.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Then form a commune/farm. We Woodstock children still know how

to live as a community. At least those of us who never voted for Reagan, etc.

[earth mom]

11. Since I can't afford gold, I'm gonna stock up on cigarettes and liquor to barter with.

:yoiks:

[Renew Deal]

12. Someone told me to buy Philip Morris

Because in tough times people like cigarettes and beer. PM owns Miller.

[martymar64]

15. I'm going for Euros instead

A nice hedge against hyperinflation.

[WhiteTara]

16. I have one already - nice and deep

to hold all those billion dollar bills I'll need for milk and bread

[hvn_nbr_2]

18. That's their plan. That's why the Fed stopped reporting M3. nt