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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (42129)	1/14/2009 6:25:18 AM
From: Math Junkie	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42834

OK, now you're the second person who claims there is a meaningful alternative to riding out bear markets, and who, when questioned, isn't able to come up with specifics, only vague generalities. Gosh what a surprise. Brinker has proven that his model can't avoid major bears consistently. The odd thing is that people are now showing up claiming that market timing is possible all the same. You just have to take risk into account, they say, or you have to make your best estimate of economic conditions. Gosh, I bet Brinker never thought of THAT, LOL!

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (42129)	1/14/2009 8:08:12 PM
From: octavian	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

Skeeter Bug said: <<it isn't a perfect process, but it is much better than valuing companies who've never made any money (and eventually never did!) into the billions during the internet stock mania and then expect the continuing of economic activity from home appreciation in spite of homes tripling against flat incomes.>> --I agree with you, skeeter bug. I avoided the internet mania like the plague, and I declined to buy a home here in Las Vegas in 2003-4 because I felt prices were too high. But that didn't save me from this bear market, so I'm not real sure what your point is.