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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: alanrs who wrote (91457)10/5/2007 7:59:12 PM
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1973: Can you *imagine* being short in 1973, watching the S&P finally succumb to the steady increase in interest rates from 4% to over 10%

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but still having crap like this torpedo your portfolio:

(note the new all-time highs in 10/1973)





Really gives one perspective. You can even be right on the general market direction, right about the economy falling off a cliff, but *still* get run over by inflation and momentum.

Something for me to seriously consider at this juncture.

BC
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