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document.write("<h5>The storm has come, the storm will go...</h5>");
document.write("The storm has come, the storm will go...<br />What we see now - all happened 1 - 2 years ago. It did not happen right now. Now it just popped, like a pimple. <br />The recovery/fix is and has been worked-on during the last 1/2 - 1 year. It will take a bit more time. Like a fever that needs to \"work itself out of the system\". Just wait, keep your head low and in 6 - 12 month everything will start to look differnt!<br />Peter Muller. PeterM");
document.write("<h5>Buying opportunity</h5>");
document.write("Buy when many are selling and Sell when many are Buying.<br />Surely, despite world problems, it is a good time to buy responsibly!. Mark Tucker");
document.write("<h5>Very helpful article, thanx!</h5>");
document.write("This is great, thanks.  Sometimes need someone to help me keep cool and stay the course.. Pietman");
document.write("<h5>Compare your options</h5>");
document.write("If I wanted to just save some money and avoid all the global financial turbulence I would hunker down and put my cash in a high end savings account and park it off until the situation gets better. There is a great South African site that lets you check out what's available on the market right now called http://www.justmoney.co.za<br />Graeme. graeme");
document.write("<h5>REALITY CHECK</h5>");
document.write("####! What the world is getting now is the bill for years of abuse of the credit system.The \"fly now pay later\" economy is finally crashing.<br /><br />To get an idea what this \"credit crisis\" is all about, the following is an excellent article: <br /><br />http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_and_crisis_civilization<br /><br />I agree that now it is probably too late to dump equities,one should have done that some time ago.  On the other hand things can still get worse, a lot worse. <br /><br />Your best bet is gold and silver, as  presently grossly under valued. <br /><br />For excellent reading ( a healthy dose of reality) try wwww.rense.com. Mark . Mark");
document.write("<h5>Gold and silver! HA-HA!</h5>");
document.write("Invest in gold and silver!  Are you high,Mark? This article writes about long-term savings - like retirment and stuff.  Ja, right buy gold, to do what with?. Lieplapper");
document.write("<h5>QUOTE </h5>");
document.write("If I may quote Richard Bernstein<br />(Chief Strategist Merrill Lynch)<br /><br /><br />\"People talk about stocks for the long run. In the last 10 years, both cash and bonds have outperformed stocks. What I've been saying is that the returns in other asset classes are going to be competitive to stocks, and if that was true, taking the risk of 60%, 70%, 80% or 90% in stocks didn't make a lot of sense. <br />We still haven't killed that \"stocks for the long term\" mentality yet. In the Depression, that was the time you should have been buying equities, but nobody did. Now we've come full circle; Depression-era mentality is gone. Maybe stocks won't perform over the long term because that's what everybody believes. <br /><br />In the next year or two or three, we will severely test the notion of stocks for the long term.\" <br /><br />Self explanatory<br />. Mark");
document.write("<h5>Fact not fiction</h5>");
document.write("Mark, you're figures are wrong or not South African.  How the hell can you say that bonds and cash have outperformed equities in the last 10 years? Please dude, get your facts straight.. Reynold Green");
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