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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (76146)	12/19/2006 10:47:33 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

tell that to the bears on SI, who consider 5% returns a roaring bull market. Yes we are currently experiencing "new highs" in the DOW, but this does not a bubble make. Our financial markets have been so bad, for so many years that bears feel empowered to think it has to go on this way forever. I am not bullish on this economy really and esp not on housing. But the chances of this stock market staying flat for ANOTHER 6 years after this past 6 years is almost nil. We have just lived through a market that comes along only once every 30-50 years. Stocks GO UP in normal times. 10% per year.

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (76146)	12/19/2006 11:18:35 PM
From: russwinter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

<Wall Street is always bullish - first it is usually correct, and second, there is almost no penalty for being wrong if you're bullish - but the penalty is heavy if you are wrong and are bearish (say goodbye to your job).> "A sound banker, alas, is not one who forsees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him". - John Maynard Keynes