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| Tweet Topic Started: May 27 2008, 10:53 AM (313 Views) | |
| QuirtEvans | May 27 2008, 10:53 AM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/business/28home.html?hp |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| lb1 | May 27 2008, 11:09 AM Post #2 |
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Bad is a matter of perspective. I see a buyers market opening up. lb |
| My position is simple: you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion and slung mud on an issue where none was deserved. Quirt 03/08/09 | |
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| Rainman | May 27 2008, 11:12 AM Post #3 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I see everything taking a nose-dive as rising fuel prices destroy the purchasing power of the middle class. |
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| QuirtEvans | May 27 2008, 11:20 AM Post #4 |
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Yeah, that and rising food prices. But that's what I see happening too. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Frank_W | May 27 2008, 11:21 AM Post #5 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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You and lb are both correct. Strange times we live in....
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| lb1 | May 27 2008, 11:37 AM Post #6 |
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I just made and offer on 54 acres of ground at $800 per acre. The guy is holding at $1100 per acre, but 18 months ago it would have brought $3000 an acre any day of the week. lb |
| My position is simple: you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion and slung mud on an issue where none was deserved. Quirt 03/08/09 | |
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| Frank_W | May 27 2008, 11:38 AM Post #7 |
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Think he'll go $900? Still a hell of a deal, even at $1G.
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| lb1 | May 27 2008, 11:54 AM Post #8 |
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I'll wait a couple weeks and if he hasn't found a buyer I'll lay cash on the table. Green is good for at least 25% when someone is pressed. lb |
| My position is simple: you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion and slung mud on an issue where none was deserved. Quirt 03/08/09 | |
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| Larry | May 27 2008, 12:01 PM Post #9 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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I guess if you're looking for doom and gloom Quirt, you'll find it. I look for the positive - so I was pleased to hear on the news today that oil prices have dropped and are expected to continue to drop because the high prices have been a bubble, the stock market is up, meaning they may just know something we don't know yet, and most importantly - housing sales are up. |
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| Red Rice | May 27 2008, 12:01 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Agreed. I'm thinking Florida would be a nice place for a second home. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Rainman | May 27 2008, 12:08 PM Post #11 |
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If a gallon of gas was $10/gal., would that destroy the economy? How about $8/gal.? $6?? So. . . where's the tipping point? Whatever it is, we seem to be moving towards it, not away from it. |
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| QuirtEvans | May 27 2008, 12:09 PM Post #12 |
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Stock prices were up mildly. I'm reasonably sure that today's DJIA change was well below-average daily volatility for the year, and certainly for the last couple of months. Oil did drop, today. We'll see if it sticks. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Frank_W | May 27 2008, 12:09 PM Post #13 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Awesome... Good luck!
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| Frank_W | May 27 2008, 12:10 PM Post #14 |
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Depends on whether they mixed it with enough detergent, or not.
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| Larry | May 27 2008, 12:43 PM Post #15 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Just saw this on the financial news - home prices are rising in about a third of the nation. |
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