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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (15685)	4/7/1998 7:32:00 PM
From: Kip518	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bonnie, while Faber was not given time to explain his reasoning, one could easily imagine the scenario where the yen rises dramatically. If the Japanese are pushed to the point that they begin to liquidate their enormous U.S. holdings -- selling dollars & buying yen -- obviously U.S. markets would get a triple whammy -- falling bond prices, rising interest rates & a collapsing dollar (not to mention a major government crisis). We trust that such a thing will not happen because the Japanese hold too much of our paper -- they wouldn't be able to get out fast enough not to be hurt too. Therefore, self-interest will prevent it. But, maybe they won't have a choice. Kip

To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (15685)	4/8/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

Bonnie:<<USA Today has a big article about how real estate prices have gone up 15% across the nation "with no signs of inflation". This is true. I am located in Madison, WI. And here the worth of residential housing rose around 9% every year for the last 10 years, especially in the last 3-4 years, averaging 13%-14% up. For most of the ordinary people, the only difference makes for them is higher and higher real estate tax, somewhere around 3.3%, even higher than a lot of surrounding areas of Chicago or LA.