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Default How wall street blew up the housing market

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:05:45 -0400, wrote:

You keep bitching about how your 401k is losing money. If you had
simply bought IBM stock you would be getting 2-3% return from
dividends alone.


Now who would have thought that a big manufacturing company in the US
could possibly have been successful over so many years. Maybe
because of good management, good products, good people, good service
and no unions (that I know of) ?