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Strategies & Market Trends : Value Investing

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To: Paul Senior who wrote (2585)12/2/1997 10:54:00 AM
From: Dan Packer  Read Replies (1) of 78596
 
re: UHAL - Think it's more complicated than just taking on debt to avoid takeover. The family remains in a controlling position. However there are several branches of the family involved, and only now have the dissident members been bought off. Co looks to me to be one of those situations where a bad management can't kill a great business (or brand name - remember Jartran?).

re: debt - with low interest rates, your strategy seems logical. With inflation, it's a no-brainer. However with deflation, things would be reversed. I personally believe that this market bubble is evidence of inflation in financial instruments that will cycle through the economy someday. In which case, having lots of low interest debt instruments out there could be a real asset.

IMHO

Dan
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