mnandii wrote:It is important for all to note that the current crises we are experiencing will not end any time soon. It may well be the beginning of a much more difficult deflationary environment.
As long as the NSE 20 Share Index keeps falling (the waves show that a bottom is still far away) the physical and economic situation will continue to get worse. This is Socionomics and we have forecasted these conditions over several posts in this thread.It's also precisely why Elliotticians and Socionomists advocate keeping hard cash. With cash you will have something when banks collapse. And the value of your holdings will increase substantially especially at a time when everybody else will have lost theirs.
Of course you must forget about real estate for now and for a long time to come. Their values have started falling and have a long way to fall further. No one is going to bother about property any time soon.
And since you have more time in your hands by virtue of the quarantine, consider reading CONQUER THE CRASH BY ROBERT PRECHTER. You should have read it long time ago but you still have time to help yourself.
Deflation is not all bad. It's about relativity.
Example: In 2018, I could sell my house for 1mn and buy 2 flats for 1mn. Now I can get 800k for the house but the 2 flats for 800k as well then RELATIVELY speaking little has changed.
As for good income-producing assets, the ROI is important. Would cash have been better? Yes but cash also has a cash-drag (esp in the USA, EU, Japan but not in Kenya) currently. That said, cash offers optionality as is today, was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett