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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (85020)	1/15/2009 4:06:59 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

The secular comparison is not right, the start of the secular bear is 2000. This is the second wave of the bear that started in ... 2005! When comparing to 1929, one HAS to plot DJIA in gold. The Bear resumed in 2005 once the housing bubble popped. The DOW is now where it was in .... 1928, 81 years ago. Adjusted for inflation, the bulls made nothing in more than a lifetime. The bulls LOST 80% inflation adjusted since Y2K. They pocketed the dividends, thou, but paid taxes on 'em too. Bond bulls lost as well since Y2K. The reason for this adjustment? Cause the dollar is nothing but a piece of paper with some dead dude on it. The win is about increased purchasing power. From 1971 on we have a new era of wallpaper dollar. Such experiments pretty much always ended in tears in the past... pricedingold.com