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Stock market doomsayers and so-called financial experts need to shut up

October 28th, 2008

About four to five weeks ago, all the so-called experts and financial geniuses were telling people to sell their stocks, cash in what they could, and be prepared for a stock market crash similar to that of the one in 1929.

At the same time, I held the same view that very few “financial experts” featured on television held: buy as many shares of as many stocks as you possibly can while the price-per-share is low. At the time, it was something of a buyer’s delight with prices being low.


Where’s the housing relief bill for responsible people?

July 27th, 2008

Congress has approved a $300 billion funding measure to help people who are at risk of losing their homes due to foreclosure, and now, it seems, almost every media outlet in the country is busy touting the ways to stake claim to your chunk of change from that bailout.

To be in foreclosure means you haven’t paid your mortgage. Wow! What a concept. Most of the people in the current mortgage crisis are people who managed to get mortgages from lenders who offered sub-prime loans. The loans were given to people with a variety of options, but many people who never would have managed to get a mortgage from traditional lenders managed to buy a home. Great. Until the taxpayer-funded bailout.