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Chicken Little and the Art of Investing
Prieur du Plessis (October 9th, 2008) Writes:
Early August marked the first anniversary of the credit crunch. The infant that arrived unheralded and unwelcome on the doorstep of the financial world is now, believe it or not, just over one year old. While we all hoped that its unhappy life would be a short one, it now seems as though this unwanted foundling is going to be with us for a while yet. And, by all accounts, it is going to cause us a lot more sleepless nights before it goes away.
If the credit crunch were a storm we might now be in its eye – that expanse of uneasy calm in the storm’s centre, which whispers to the unwary that the worst is behind them. No chance, I’m afraid, if we listen to the utterances of
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