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The Arithmetic of Gold
Seeking Alpha ^ | October 07, 2009 | David Goldman

Posted on 10/08/2009 1:15:34 PM PDT by arthurus

Remember the 1990s tech bubble? When it burst, the experts were telling you - you should have been into Blue Chips. After you shifted your money - BANG - the market collapsed with ENRON, WORLDCOM and the others then Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted and the experts declared that you should have diversified and had some money into the "fourth asset class" - real estate.

Many cashed out whatever was left in mutual funds and bought "investment condos" thinking they were going to "flip and buy" which was a strategy that lasted for a bit then they got caught up in the real estate crash. They got wiped out and some cannot fathom how all that upward spiraling equity evaporated into ghost equity

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: bubble; gold; inflation; mania
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To: JPG

Don’t forget the vodka...


21 posted on 10/09/2009 8:25:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: truthfreedom

The money made in the stock market often comes from sweetheart deals. Ask Terry McAullife how he turned $100,000 into $17,000,000. Ask Hillary Clinton how she turned $1,000 into $100,000.


22 posted on 10/09/2009 8:27:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Orange1998

“Please keeping buying my tulips”.

The ponzi scheme (whether it is stock speculation or “flipping properties” driving up inflated prices) cannot be sustained.


23 posted on 10/09/2009 8:30:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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