Has the Great Collapse of ’08 cost you anything yet?
Me? Besides several thousand dollars in sales, and a shitpot load more that was pretty much only on paper, not much.
What about you guys? How’s this affecting you personally?
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IRA/401k has shrunk a bit in value, but it’s not a loss until you sell…. Thankfully, I have many many more years to work… *sob*
Other than the irritation I feel about the bail out mess…. no affect.
business sucks.
I won’t know til November 4.
My home. Sigh.
I cleared out my IRA earlier this year, fearing something the like and remembering the as-yet-unrecovered loss of half my 401(k) from 2000. So I’m not earning anything on that. (Har-har). Opportunity cost.
Groceries cost more. Gas prices dropping. ::shrug::
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“My home. Sigh.”
Talk to us. We want to know.
Nothing, until I sell my calf crop, that has dropped considerably. I’ll let you know howe much when I do so. My son will sell his this friday. I think the price has dropped about 20 cents a pound. Take that times 500 pound calves times 15 head for him.
Mine will be worth even less as they are not as good a quality as his.
So far, not a dime except on paper.
Nothing here. Just on paper, home value is back to purchase price, the 401K is ’bout 45% off but like Leadchucker said, still have *sob* MANY years to re-coop.
well, the 401(k) YTD loss is at 41.5% . At least I have lots of time to recover, so long as I stay employed.
Nope, I still own all the shares I owned back in the summer. Haven’t sold anything, so haven’t lost anything.
Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Office Max, Fed-Ex, etc will all most likely still be around when this is all over, and they’ll most likely still be good companies. So my shares in them are still shares in companies that will do fine.