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Dead Men Walking

By Prieur du Plessis, on August 27th, 2008 posted in: Guest Bloggers, Investment, Markets, Money

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“When I look at my Bloomberg monitor each day that contains my 100 most important indices, companies, commodities, bonds, bond spreads, preferred shares, etc, I shudder. The reason I shudder is that my screen doesn’t have just one ‘problem child’. It looks like a screen that contains many ‘dead men walking’,” says Bennet Sedacca in a guest contribution to Investment Postcards. . [...]

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