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Old 06-13-2008, 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by sweeps View Post
Thread crapper here. Keep a diversified domestic and international stock portfolio. Forget about the other junk. Obviously I've been way early on this call, but eventually energy and commodities will tank. Stocks are way cheap now and will prevail as they always do.
Yeah, this is my line of thinking. Past performance is no guarantee... yet we all use past performance to justify investing to some degree (if I expected only 7% returns from equities, I would be investing heavily in bonds- much less risk for about the same return).
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