Comments on: Don’t Let the “Lost Decade” for Stocks Cause You to Lose Your Way http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/03/31/dont-let-the-lost-decade-for-stocks-cause-you-to-lose-your-way/ Investment News Provider Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:36:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Lost Decade: How the U.S. Financial Crisis Resembles Japan’s Ten Years of Misery - And How to Play it http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/03/31/dont-let-the-lost-decade-for-stocks-cause-you-to-lose-your-way/comment-page-1/#comment-9366 The Lost Decade: How the U.S. Financial Crisis Resembles Japan’s Ten Years of Misery - And How to Play it Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:15:26 +0000 http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/03/31/dont-let-the-lost-decade-for-stocks-cause-you-to-lose-your-way/#comment-9366 [...] Americans are already getting financial frostbite. Unemployment is 20% higher than it was a year ago. Zooming meat, dairy and gasoline prices are eviscerating household budgets, meaning that the “real” rate of inflation is probably double or triple what the federal government would have us believe. Mortgage defaults are at their highest level in 30 years. Home prices have fallen so much that they’ve wiped out all the gains of the past four years. And U.S. stocks have eradicated a decade’s worth of profits. [...] [...] Americans are already getting financial frostbite. Unemployment is 20% higher than it was a year ago. Zooming meat, dairy and gasoline prices are eviscerating household budgets, meaning that the “real” rate of inflation is probably double or triple what the federal government would have us believe. Mortgage defaults are at their highest level in 30 years. Home prices have fallen so much that they’ve wiped out all the gains of the past four years. And U.S. stocks have eradicated a decade’s worth of profits. [...]

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