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Tue Jan-22-08 06:32 AM
Response to Reply #24 |
| 27. "That" assumed nothing |
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I merely posted a chart showing the DJIA's upward growth for the past 80 years despite major market corrections.
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| -A stock crash is not bad. The sky is not going to fall. Your stock's value |
conspirator |
Jan-22-08 05:27 AM |
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A car crash is not bad |
SpiralHawk |
Jan-22-08 05:28 AM |
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Do you think that's a valid analogy? |
water |
Jan-22-08 05:46 AM |
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Interest rates aren't going up, we are in a recession. How bad will it be? |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 05:55 AM |
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Lowering the rates would delay it... |
water |
Jan-22-08 06:01 AM |
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No, that is the mistake they made during the great depression |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:07 AM |
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Money became extremely tight... |
water |
Jan-22-08 06:09 AM |
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Keynesian economics would have minimized the depression period /nt |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:25 AM |
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Pumping more monopoly money into the economy right after it had crashed from having too much? |
water |
Jan-22-08 06:42 AM |
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Yup, that is what you do until you recover. Then you reduce spending or increase taxes |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:50 AM |
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Why would that work? |
water |
Jan-22-08 06:54 AM |
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I agree, what I am saying is inflationary, and it is complicated by the fact |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 07:08 AM |
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110000 on the dow, I'll take... |
PCIntern |
Jan-22-08 06:34 AM |
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Yup. My analogy is excruciatingly apt in light of the OP glib kissoff of a Stock Crash |
SpiralHawk |
Jan-22-08 07:53 AM |
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... |
Bright Eyes |
Jan-22-08 07:04 AM |
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If car crashes corrected the way stocks do, they wouldn't be as big a deal either. |
mondo joe |
Jan-22-08 08:09 AM |
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Shhh....dammit. |
Squatch |
Jan-22-08 05:29 AM |
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And your homes value will increase over the next 10 years,,, but you won't own it. |
bluerum |
Jan-22-08 05:30 AM |
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PANIC !1!1 |
Uben |
Jan-22-08 05:32 AM |
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That is fine if you are well diversified, and working, but what if you need the money NOW |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:04 AM |
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watch it |
enid602 |
Jan-22-08 08:28 AM |
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Yes and I am trying not to panic... |
Jawja |
Jan-22-08 06:49 AM |
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If you don't need to sell, you don't need to panic. Don't watch the idiot tube |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:52 AM |
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Well here's the difference between now and other stock crashes. |
GOPBasher |
Jan-22-08 05:35 AM |
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The biggest problem we have right now is debt, across the whole spectrum |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:11 AM |
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Hmmm, experts were saying that on October 28, 1929 also |
MadHound |
Jan-22-08 05:36 AM |
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And despite what those experts said back then... |
Squatch |
Jan-22-08 05:39 AM |
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That assumes you didn't need the money invested in the market for 10 years |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:28 AM |
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If you need money within 10 years, you shouldn't be heavily into high-test stocks with it. |
BadgerLaw2010 |
Jan-22-08 06:30 AM |
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My portfolio beta is around 1.75, so these swings are nausea-inducing |
Squatch |
Jan-22-08 06:34 AM |
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Oh, I see, banks much more stable. How many people in the U.S. understand about investing? /nt |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:38 AM |
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Judging by the Chicken-Little threads here on DU...not many |
Squatch |
Jan-22-08 06:41 AM |
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You and I agree. Obviously, mutual funds were the best thing for most people |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:48 AM |
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I only wish I had some extra cash to dump into the market right now... |
Squatch |
Jan-22-08 06:53 AM |
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Personally, I think you will have plenty of time. Until the full impact |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:57 AM |
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"That" assumed nothing |
Squatch |
Jan-22-08 06:32 AM |
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They constantly remove losers from the DJIA, and replace them with winners |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:42 AM |
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Sure. Once THEY outsource tens of millions MORE US JOBS to foreign slave wage countries....... |
Double T |
Jan-22-08 05:39 AM |
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Hey, you're going to upset the |
BlackVelvet04 |
Jan-22-08 05:43 AM |
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Some middle-manager you work for may not be so sanguine |
dmesg |
Jan-22-08 05:44 AM |
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And those permanent tax cuts will just be lovely, all is well... n/t |
deacon |
Jan-22-08 05:47 AM |
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That depends on a lot of factors, and under no circumstances should social security |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 05:52 AM |
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If you're getting close to retirement |
Squatch |
Jan-22-08 05:56 AM |
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and what happens to those who didn't diversify properly? |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:35 AM |
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SS shouldn't be in the stock market. But as far as retirement plans are concerned, |
mondo joe |
Jan-22-08 08:12 AM |
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It's bad for people nearing retirement.. |
girl gone mad |
Jan-22-08 05:55 AM |
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That is the whole point, it depends whether you need the money or not /nt |
still_one |
Jan-22-08 06:30 AM |
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Not too bad if you are under 45 i guess. i hate this idiotic me me me veiled threads...onwards! n/t |
deacon |
Jan-22-08 06:23 AM |
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Excuse me but those of us |
Le Taz Hot |
Jan-22-08 08:17 AM |
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Diversification Is A Good Thing |
KharmaTrain |
Jan-22-08 06:37 AM |
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I'm so glad I've followed my great-grandmother's advice |
ayeshahaqqiqa |
Jan-22-08 06:56 AM |
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I've always felt the stock market is for the big boys. |
Le Taz Hot |
Jan-22-08 08:22 AM |
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Manyof the 'crash' threads have the same religious fervor... |
LanternWaste |
Jan-22-08 07:55 AM |
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I know people who lost their entire retirement after 9/11... |
Virginia Dare |
Jan-22-08 08:08 AM |
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Good advice |
NewJeffCT |
Jan-22-08 08:24 AM |
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