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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Moominoid who wrote (27328)1/11/2003 5:55:59 PM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Most Americans in the top 10% think they are in the middle...

I know a guy who has a BMW AND an E-class Mercedes-Benz who was incredibly jealous that his friend in Texas had a bigger house than he had. He also said his Mercedes wasn't a REAL Mercedes because it wasn't an S-class...

My guess is no matter where you live on Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, you look at all the people above you, not below.

By the way, I have found Canadians to be mostly underconfident in there abilities, and Austrailians to be dangerously overconfident...especially if beer and machinery is involved.
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