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Predictions of 50% falls now hitting mainstream in the Independent
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »There's a lesson to be learned from all these 50% falls threads being posted every year, that never come to pass.
Wonder what it could be?
Transpires that anything less that 50% real term falls is a win for the bulls. Apparently. :rotfl:
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I think everyone should remember that this cycle has not finished yet.
Also if the BOE had not reduced interest rates and QE`d then house prices would have corrected.0 -
if the BOE had not reduced interest rates and QE`d then house prices would have corrected.
If Doctors never bothered healing the sick, a lot more people would die.
Did it really never occur to any of you bears that monetary easing would be a likely response to a recession?“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »There's a lesson to be learned from all these 50% falls threads being posted every year, that never come to pass.
Wonder what it could be?
Given that the articles are within the same 12 month period, it does rather suggest that the lesson is how bad you are with numbers.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »If Doctors never bothered healing the sick, a lot more people would die.
Did it really never occur to any of you bears that monetary easing would be a likely response to a recession?
Like the drunk that keeps on drinking.
Do you really believe that it will work?0 -
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »It already has.:)0
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I wonder what happened to the people making these predictions - did they end up buying or are they still waiting.0
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