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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: octavian who wrote (42482)	1/31/2009 7:44:25 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 42834

"I believe one should do whatever he can to avoid a bear market, or at least mitigate the damage." That's clearly something that Skeeter agrees with you about.

To: octavian who wrote (42482)	1/31/2009 7:59:32 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

>>I believe one should do whatever he can to avoid a bear market, or at least mitigate the damage. That's one of the things that drew me to Brinker.<< but when it really counted, brinker blew chunks. heck, he totally missed an economic abyss many are comparing to the great depression. he probably laughed off gold as it doubled. then trebled. the quadrupled. he just doesn't "get it." the financial arena is such a mess that people are losing confidence in society as a whole. unemployment in CA is 16% and currently accelerating. the great depression had 25% unemployment. we are already over 60% of the way there in bankrupt CA (totally out of borrowed billions money now).

To: octavian who wrote (42482)	1/31/2009 8:15:35 PM
From: Midwest_Investor	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

The funny thing is 8 years ago, I started buying I-bonds, in a big way. For the last 5+ years I thought these were a dumb purchase. Now they're the best thing I've got going ;) I look forward to the 1st of each month because they accumulate interest on the 1st, not matter how cruddy the rest of the month was for me. the other funny thing is a few years ago, I told a friend of mine that I wish I would have just put all my money in the RWR REIT. at the time it was the biggest gainer in my diversified asset allocation. amazing how things change. Oh well, such is life. I'm not selling, and remaining pretty much at 60% / 40% plus or minus market fluctuations.