IN THIS ISSUE: "The 2008 market will go down in history" "2008: We Learned What We Don't Know" Happy New Year!! Introduction Happy Holidays! I hope that everyone who celebrated Christmas had a very merry one. We certainly did at the Halbert house. I am taking this week off to...
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Gary D. Halbert
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12-31-2008
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Filed under: Gary D. Halbert, Housing Crisis, Credit Crisis, Subprime, Oil, 2008, Economy, Estate Planning, MarketWatch, Investor Losses, Nick Godt, Robert J. Samuelson
Everywhere I go, people ask me how we got into this financial crisis that has seized up credit and driven the stock markets down 40% or more, most of it in just the last few weeks. Obviously, the simple answer is that the housing bubble burst, and as home prices tumbled, mortgage delinquencies and home...
IN THIS ISSUE: 1. The Demise & Bailout Of Bear Stearns 2. How The Bear/Morgan Deal Went Down 3. Right, Wrong Or The ONLY Thing To Do? 4. What Does The Fed Get Out Of This Deal? 5. Congress To The Rescue On Housing Crisis? 6. Conclusions - If Any Introduction The massive Fed bailout of Bear Stearns...
IN THIS ISSUE: 1. The US Economy - What Kind Of Recession? 2. Fed Puts Real Skin (Our Skin) In The Game 3. J.P. Morgan Quintuples The Bear Deal - Why? 4. Market Implications - More Uncertainty 5. Are We There Yet (Market Bottom)? 6. Getting Out Is Easy - When To Get back In? 7. Conclusions - What To...