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America has squandered the human sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears of two generations in less than seventy years. We have been an independent country for 226 years. From 1783 until 1946 was an unrelenting upward trajectory for the beacon of the free world. With the end of World War II, America was the last country standing. Germany and Japan were in shambles. Russia had lost millions of citizens, with Stalin about to murder millions more. Great Britain was a shell of its former self. The American Empire had been born. We were the manufacturer to the world. We rebuilt Europe and Japan. Our military was dominant. We made the best automobiles. We built 41,000 miles of national highway over two decades. In 1946, one in three U.S. workers was employed in the manufacturing industry. Today, less than one in ten workers makes something.

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/quinn/2009/0324.html

I believe every investor needs to hammer into their heads, tape to their computer monitors, and post on their office walls two things: one a phrase and another, an image. These two things will go a long way in helping investors not to lose focus. The phrase is the title to this article, “This will be a process, not an event,”


http://www.financialsense.com/Market/cpuplava/2009/0325.html