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    Default bizarre but accurate ?

    the 'skyscraper curse' ? The author draws a correlation between the construction of the 'world's tallest building' and a nasty economic crisis immediately following !!!



    (snip)"Presaging Gloom
    In 1908, for example, New York's 47-floor Singer Building opened, followed by the 50-story Metropolitan Life Building. Both were planned, financed and raised while the U.S. was in the midst of the Panic of 1907, a credit crunch that necessitated help from financier J.P. Morgan.

    In 1929, the opening of 40 Wall Street and the Chrysler Building were harbingers of the worst-ever U.S. meltdown, the Great Depression. A year later, the Empire State Building became the world's tallest building, presaging years of gloom.

    The 1970s saw the completion of New York's World Trade Center and Chicago's Sears Tower. They opened amid stagflation in the U.S. economy, a fiscal crisis in New York and the breakdown of the Bretton Woods monetary system.

    Tall Task
    More recently, Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Towers were being completed during the Asian crisis. .....

    Thickening the plot: the plunge in the U.S. dollar analysts have predicted for years may come in 2007. Other risks include a slowdown in China, higher global interest rates and inflation and geopolitical risks from North Korea, Iran, Iraq and a number of other regions. Oil prices also might climb anew.

    Add in the rapid increase in the number of hedge funds and the proliferation of the so-called yen-carry trade. The trade, a favorite among hedge-fund managers, involves borrowing in ultra- low-interest-rate yen and re-investing the funds in riskier, higher-yielding assets elsewhere. It is believed to have greatly increased leverage in markets around the globe."(snip)

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    Default Re: bizarre but accurate ?

    Hmmmmm....
    That is odd, I've never heard of that before. How strange...
    With all the stupid things guys will say, stay cool.

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