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This is due to the fact that the American stock markets have been in a secular bull market since 1945. Look at a yearly chart of the Dow. It's a definite uptrend -- the "bear markets" of the 1970's was really just a pullback when you look at the truly long picture. Ironically, the buy-and-hold...

If someone "buys" a home with little or no down payment with an interest only mortgage, and then defaults later due to rising interest rates, what will they lose? Other than a smear on their credit rating, not much. People with little or no down payment and interest-only loans are just...

Looking at the poll results, I'm in the sparsely populated middle category (just under $100k of capital). Most respondents are either under $40k or over $200k. Does that mean if I keep trading I'm likely to join the $200k and over group :) or fall into the $40k and unders :eek: ?

That's a funny observation from your friend. Too bad for the mortgage lender, though, that in a Supply Side Perfect Storm the lenders will have a ton of inventory of foreclosed homes but no buyers, or lots of buyers at prices far below the value of the bad loans. A married couple, both...

Show that capitalism requires socialism? That was postulated a long time ago by John Maynard Keynes. In the 1930's Keynes said that the best and most efficient way to achieve full employment and more wealth for the rich was through a mixed economy that is part capitalist and part socialism...