Microsoft 1999 — Great Business, Terrible Investment
“Microsoft sitting at such a low PE was crazy” -[ some guy on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/comments/1tjk3vp/i_have_been_buying_up_msft_and_now_for_the_past_2/).
“Microsoft sitting at such a low PE was crazy” -[ some guy on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/comments/1tjk3vp/i_have_been_buying_up_msft_and_now_for_the_past_2/).
[In a recent interview on CNBC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY6o7TnNUUw), Warren Buffett compared the markets to a church with a casino attached.
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There’s a line in investing, usually attributed to Sir John Templeton, that the four most expensive words in the English language are: _“This time it’s different.“_
Australians have a near-spiritual belief in property. It’s practically encoded in the national DNA. Bricks and mortar. Safe as houses. You can’t go wrong with real estate.
Peter Lynch once said: “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.”