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To: #Breeze who wrote (193829)	10/3/2023 12:40:14 PM
From: robert b furman	1 Recommendation Recommended By 3bar Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 207794

HI Breeze, Both Bonds and Corporations (stock prices) try to keep up with real interest rates. If the real interest rates are maintained during inflationary times, both bond yields and stocks go up at the same time. Bottom line "The days of ZIRP" (Zero Interest Rate Programs are history). Those savers who were abused for 15 years via "ZIRP" are in a slow vindication of their conservative habits. Cash is king and debt is your enemy. This very same turning of the worm, bit me in the azz in 1981. I got transferred to Houston from Chicago. Lost $30,000 of my newly bought house ($35,000 down payment) and moved to Houston which was in high growth due to an energy spike (sounds familiar doesn't it). Mortgage rates were 18% and I had no down payment left. Had to sell my new Corvette and go back to renting a house for 2 years and save up again. By the time I moved, the market was in a long term decline, with the exception of semis, PC's and the internet, that saved me. PC's were coming popular as I was hand charting my stocks. If you live long enough, you see it come back again. Bob