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To: Berk who wrote (163530)10/10/2020 9:27:10 AM
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In 1981 I read an editorial in the WSJ by a mathematician who explained why assets go up or down by 30% for every 1 point rise or fall in interest rates. I copied it and carried it with me for years. I lost the article and looked for it at the WSJ site but could not find it again. Barton Biggs had a figure in this range too. My observation over 30 years is that it is correct. I have a brain that simplifies all data to simple models. I have a book coming out in psychiatry that has models of mental illness that will pass on to the lay person in 190 pages 50% of learning I have done in 30 years in the field



To: Berk who wrote (163530)10/10/2020 10:23:40 AM
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The housing observation may have been from Steve Keens. The author was saying the US should change its lending for housing to the British style for the boom bust reason he gave