Stan,
Sort of chuckling to keep from crying...
I think you are referring to the common usage of deflation vs.
the usage of that term I learned struggling through Econ., but it's appropriate.

New E70?! Hellsbells, I couldn't justify a new Fit tomorrow to
replace the CEO's 5 1/2 yr old CR-V, (our "newest" vehicle in the
ol'stable, by the bye.)

I retiterate I am not taking up a Net-A-Thon yet, to supplant
my eroding retiredBum nest egg, yet...just very depressing to
see years of hard work, saving like squirrels, living way below
our means then, and look up and it is being dragged down like
a whirlpool. Cash is king and I have ~63% of the ol' port in it,
but as stuff gets Stopped out every day, (and all of those
equities are light years below their highs of less than a year
ago), I am thinking Our Plan is a little lighter than I ever would
have imagined...

Anyone need an ol'former sales exec., with very diminished skills,
eroding mental capacity, current crummy work habits whom is trying
to figure out if it's worth it to go hump an 8 buck an hour job,
assuming I could find one. Maybe that Net-A-Thon for us older
people here, has some merit. What say all you young guns kick
in?!

Where do I get in line for my TARP cut?