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Originally Posted by tony404
someone with a bunch of cash could make purchases now that would make them very rich in the future.
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Assuming they buy when the market stops dropping. They were saying the same about the dollar and look where buying dollars 6 months ago would of got you.
One of the reasons for the downturn and the problems ahead is due to the banks themselves. Don't know about the US but in the UK my niece and her husband were being offered mortgages they knew they could not afford. Were the banks thinking that people will take them on for a few years, hit problems and they could foreclose on a property worth enough to cover the debt and the money paid already would be profit? Not sure if it worked that way, if it did they got burned.
Here in CZ Brno, house prices are still rising. Just not as fast as they were.