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To: jpl
8000 maybe? Could it get even lower than that?? It's starting to become scary.

Down 40% from the peak in just over a year ...

Lovely I tell ya, just f'n lovely.

19 posted on 10/09/2008 1:08:51 PM PDT by tx_eggman ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule" - Mencken)
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To: tx_eggman
Down 40% from the peak in just over a year ...

Try to keep things in perspective: IIRC, during the last bear market (2000 - 2003), the S & P 500 declined something like 50%, the DJIA declined about 44%, and the NASDAQ lost more than 70%. The big difference is that the declines during the 2002-2003 bear market occurred over a two to three year period whereas about half of the current 40% decline has occurred over the last two weeks. Nevertheless, if the market bottoms at 7000, then we are no worse off than in 2000-2003, except that we got to the bottom a lot faster.

81 posted on 10/09/2008 1:36:43 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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