EXCELLENT COMMENTARY ALL
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STEVE IB wrote....
it can take more than a few years to recover... check out the chart of HK property prices...
http://www.centadata.com/cci/cci_e.htm
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All in all ....one could look at house prices as just another stock...
Prices do not know their labels...
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What is particularly interesting in this case is the sensitivity to banks of current average portfolio prices.....and the amount of recovery time that the currently adopted Bill Seidman S&L type strategy implies...only to be exaggerated this time around by the nouveau derivative instruments...
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Normalcy....for an average retiree to generate sufficient interest to live on given average level savings...could only be supported by artificial inflationary impositions...and in this case...bank solvencies as well...
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If artificial impostions are not exaggerated...then a Japan style environment is the likely outcome...
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Deflation is the bigger risk than inflation in terms of bank solvencies in legal terms....
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Normalcy in regards to returns on savings seems to be a far away possibility....It seems as though a Japan style strategy is being employed....