Where have we heard this before?

Here's a couple of predictions I recently came across:

"We are in the early stages of a long cycle of generally accelerating inflation."

"If we do not solve the energy crisis, the American Dream is over."

Where'd I find these bearish remarks? They weren't part of a Jim Cramer rant or a Barack Obama speech. In fact, they weren't made by anyone contemplating recent headlines.

Nope -- these are from the pages of Howard Ruff's 1981 book, Survive & Win in the Inflationary Eighties. These eerie predictions -- which sound like they were stripped from the front page of a recent Wall Street Journal -- are nearly 30 years old!