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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    It's privatising profits and socialising losses. Nice work if you can get it.
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    I'm on record for my dislike of banks and financials so this will not be a surprise but my personal feeling is that it still five years early to park there.
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    "Worst is over for battered market" Do you believe that? I've got this bridge you may be interested in then...........
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    You haven't really used your imagination. :) The agreed modis operandi on SS is to be at least 90% geared or it doesn't work. OK, twenty guys will say they aren't, but they they got where they are through gearing. :D There are a million things which can impact 10% on property value. (all it...
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    Hang on. Somersoft is dedicated to borrowing to the max because then you make money on OPM. God: I only wish for consistency!
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    Why not? A fixed percentage loan is, by definition, a fixed term loan. When it expires you must write a new one. It is only convention, one which assumes continuing value of collateral, that says they re-write it. Same convention says that you "roll over" 90 day bills at the going rate at the...
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    "THE world is holding its breath, still trying to grasp the potential enormity of what is unfolding. Economic downturns and stock-market crashes are hardly unfamiliar, of course, even if a decade or so seems a long time ago for Western consumers habituated to rising house prices and non-stop...
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    Alex, do you see a return to 1% rates in the US again? That would be like saying "The patient is fit and well. The chemo is working!"
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    3. Some will have sold on the way down and will buy back on the way up, possibly with more shares than they started if their timing and nerves were good. :D
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    A storm in a teacup is it? You know, a billion here, ten billion there.... pretty soon you're talking big money. :)
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    I'll prolly stay in the market trying to dodge the bullets. I definately won't rest on a portfolio of ASX200, saying that it will pass. It could be worse than "bad" and may take "forever" to pass.
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    here come the drums of a global slowdown..

    There are similarities with (what I've read about LOL) the period between the wars which climaxed in '29 but the characters have changed and Keynsian economists rule. The Keynsians will not allow another depression but the cure .... dropping money from helicopters (Bernanke has said he could do...
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