Monday, May 22, 2006

Stocks; Gold Fall in India: On Suicide Alert

Wow. The Mumbai exchange in India has lost almost 22% of its more than $600 billion value last week and beginning today. The Indian police are watching canals and rivers for brokers wishing to commit suicide.

No matter how bad you do in life with money, it certainly is never worth more than your life. Getting your priorities straight should prevent people from jumping out of buildings or tying a boulder to their leg and jumping off a bridge. Your family and values are way more important in life than money. Your dreams may be put on hold, but a short delay isn't worth the price of death.

Gold and other commodities are falling, too. Very strange. Some are recalling similarities to this crash and the 1987 "Black Monday" Wall-Street crash, citing fears about inflation and a sharp run-up of stock prices and weakness of bonds.

I'll keep you posted.

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