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Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC)
INTC 41.41+2.2%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: chomolungma who wrote (173265)3/5/2003 3:50:07 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
RE:"Tell me again, what's wrong with long-term investing?"

Certainly I don't have to bring a chart out. It does depend when you bought of course.

RE:"And please don't tell me about that hypothetical chump who sunk his entire fortune in the market just at the top."

Well, I do know many people who saved their whole life and then bought near the top and lost it all. After all, their broker told them to "be in for the long haul". Whipped out the 'ole 9 per cent a year on average crapola.

You have to realize that all that volume that drove the market up had to come from somewhere. Much of it was new investors so the idea that some average Joe was as likely to invest in say 1990 rather than 2000 is simply not true.
The new bubble is Real Estate, look out. And don't think that everyone will be able to sell their house and stick the money back into the stock market.
Never seen a bubble yet end in a soft landing.

This country has had about a good 28 years of flawed internal and external policy and now it's hitting the fan.

Jim
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