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Posted over 15 years ago

emotion has more to do than supply and demand ever will

 think emotion has more to do with Real Estate than supply and demand ever will In 2005 we were buying houses when we should not have been In 2007 we should be buying houses and we are not why is that....Socioeconomics I quote  Socioeconomics typically analyze both the social impacts of economic activity and economic impacts of social activity. In many cases, however, socioeconomists focus on the social impact of some sort of economic change. Such changes might include a closing factory, market manipulation, the signing of international trade treaties, new natural gas regulation, etc. Such social effects can be wide-ranging in size, anywhere from local effects on a small community to changes to an entire society. many times we fool ourselves with numbers, Gaussian "bell curve type" number models were used to predict, the market to keep rolling in 2005 Guess what it did not happen why... a change ion the social mood  in 2005 risk was the catch word, now its fear pop culture has a lot to do with this, they also feed these trends, look at the movies and music Dark and scary right now, because....that’s what we want we need to stop blaming the "flippers" agents, mortgage broker, builders, its more the times that caught up, than misdeeds  There were plenty of misdeeds to go around though More quotes of wisdom Whether market timing is ever a viable investment strategy is controversial. Some may consider market timing to be a form of based on pure because they do not believe in the possibility of predicting future financial prices. The suggests that financial prices often exhibit behavior and thus can not be predicted with consistency. Some consider market timing to be sensible in certain situations, such as an apparent . However, because the economy is a that contains many factors, even at times of significant market optimism or pessimism, it often remains difficult, if not impossible, to pre-determine the of future prices with any precision; a so-called bubble can last for many years before prices collapse. Likewise, a can persist for extended periods; stocks that appear to be "cheap" at a glance can often become much cheaper afterwards before either rebounding at some time in the future or heading toward . some more to ponder In , the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) at the developed EMH as an academic concept of study through his published Ph.D. thesis in the early 1960s at the same school. asserts that financial markets are "informationally efficient", or that prices on traded assets, e.g., stocks, bonds, or property, already reflect all known information and therefore are unbiased in the sense that they reflect the collective beliefs of all investors about future prospects. Professor The efficient market hypothesis states that it is not possible to consistently outperform the market by using any information that the market already knows, except through luck. Information or news in the EMH is defined as anything that may affect prices that is unknowable in the present and thus appears randomly in the future. funny part about most of these quotes, these schools of thought. They come from outside the business world Those than can do, those that can’t teach

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