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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (30299)	3/25/2012 11:59:34 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219267

ECRI remains bearish on the economy even as their weekly leading index keeps going up and the growth rate could go positive next week. seekingalpha.com Check out that graph of WLI growth vs the S&P.... very large divergence. They were right in 2008 when the market rallied to 1400 from 1300. Will they be right this time? I think it is all a function of fake money being printed by the fed.... huge taxes on savers where wealth is transferred from us with savings to the federal government (largest borrower benefiting from artificially low rates)...so... the ONLY way to protect yourself is do what Bernanke asks... own risky assets from stocks to gold to real estate. I moved a big chunk of my cash from money markets to real estate (via REIT funds) last year and the buys are up between 20 and 27% (several buys) ... and my equity portfolio is up over 10% YTD... and all here are aware of how well Gold has done over the last few years.... What will happen in 2013 AFTER the Obama tax cuts end? (Obama extended the Bush tax cuts so those are HIS... and he added new tax cuts via the payroll tax cut... I get rather tired of Libs blaming Bush for this... but that is another issue.) BTW, real estate here above $1M is starting a melt-up as the IPO money starts to come available. I'll see if I can find a story of one home bid up over $350K last week...