I'll admit that what I had been reading in the journals in Oct. 2007 should have alerted me to pay more attention but the truth is that shortly afterward that year and into most all the 2008, some critical family matters washed over everything.

Basically I could have helped my folk's IRA out a bit with some opinions although it is 'professionally managed' and it was already a conservative fixed income investment paradigm. i.e. 30% in stocks, so losses were limited but real.

I personally bled mostly on real estate not the stock market directly.

But its intersting to look back anyway.

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1979 300D 220 K miles
1995 C280 109 K miles
1992 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe 57K miles SOLD
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1979 240D 140Kmiles (bought for parents) *SOLD.
SAN FRANCISCO/(*San Diego)
1989 300SE 148 K miles *SOLD