This thread is to explore investment ideas for how to get through a Depression (Deflationary period) that could last a couple years, and then it is followed by no economic growth for years to come. The assumption is that we will go through a diffficult economic decade (somewhat like the 1930's) from 2010 to 2020 with the worst hitting in 2010 to 2015. Whether this is going to happen is not meant to be debated here since I'm sure it warrants its own thread. So, if you were convinced that starting in 2010 we would go through such a hardship and we could see things like the DJIA back around 8,000 and then see it linger there for 10 years and home values could drop by 50%, how would you position your investments today to take advantage of this situation? I don't believe there would be anywhere to "hide" due to the globally connected economy, and gold is already sky high. I think we could actually see inflation before the deflation hits in a few years so the problem will be perceived as coming upon us suddenly. What to do?