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Archive for October 9th, 2008

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Chicken Little and the Art of Investing

As desperate times call for desperate measures, what action should equity investors take in the face of this “perfect storm”? In this post guest contributor AJ Cilliers goes back to the basics of investing by way of a parable.

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