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[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

It is going to be hard to establish a bottom, with what seems to be nothing but bad news in the immediate future. Unemployment is up. Big companies (including the fianancials) are struggling and laying off more people. Retailers are already bracing for very bad Christmans seasons. Forget about the auto industry. People are having trouble paying their mortgages, just wait until they can't or stop paying their credit card bills. It just seems like there is or no reason to be positive in the immediate future.

You are correct on all that you say but regardless of market conditions, at some point there is value...even now.

An interesting point came up when a couple of colleagues were chewing on the gloomy state of the market. IF a good perecentage of the economy was created by poor credit risk, does that mean that the contraction that we are experiencing is more longterm than short? The points you made in that post support that premise.