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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (185341)	2/20/2009 2:25:47 PM
From: Perspective	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

You'd think I'd really be enjoying a day when the DJIA and SPX are retesting the old lows. You'd think. But I'm not. Why the hell are AMZN, AMTD, and REITs up? I guess I can understand a technical bounce on REITs - they've been beat up mercilessly. But AMZN? And all the retail and restaurant stuff - not only does it refuse to go down, lots of it is UP today. Hasn't anybody heard that there's a recession on? And the epicenter is the consumer? I guess that's the problem - the epicenter is still perceived as financial. I'm getting ahead of the wave again. C'est la vie. This is the downside to hedging. They will meet their fate soon enough. `BC