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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (18236)12/9/2004 8:13:52 PM
From: russwinter  Read Replies (10) of 116555
 
The Bully formula:
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First by accident of birth (ages 40-60) you buy a house in San Diego or similar Bubble locale about fifteen years ago. Then you regularly "extract equity" out of said ATM house to buy the luxury goods mentioned in prior Bully post.
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Finally, you follow the advise of Easy Al and trade up to that TOL McMansion by taking out an ARM. While you're at it you borrow more money to become "an investor", and drive up housing prices even more:
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Then you look the policeman, the teacher, store manager, and fireman in the eye, that have to move out of town because they can't afford the community cost of living (what GWB calls "conditions on the ground as they are "),
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and say with straight face, "don't dare raise interest rates", I might not be able to make my payments. Then adamantly oppose efforts to mitigate the damage and fallout of Bubble economics:
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Oddly in today's fantasy funfest it works!
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