Back to the subject at hand. Our credit rating as a nation was downgraded on Friday and Europe has had to bail out Italy and Spain. Today the market reacted and started to tumble as soon as it opened and except for some small recoveries, has continued to plummet all day long. What does this mean for me and you? Well, most immediately, the loss of paper wealth. There is much speculation about what this will cause in the long run. Say what you will, but I think our reliance on paper or computer supported wealth is the problem here. We start to look at the immediate value of our assets as real money and it just simply isn’t. The true value of your house is not worth what is gets assessed for today, it is worth what you sell it for. I think many people learned this the hard way when they took out loans on the equity in the home and now are upside down and needing to sell. Equity is not money, stocks are not money, the only real value is in what they are worth when cashed out or sold.
These are mine, let me know your thoughts…
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