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Friday Random Thoughts: When Pigs Fly and Swine Flu

This week was dominated by the Pandemic of Swine Flu, but also with the bankruptcy protection of Chrysler leading to another possible massive erosion of Retirement and Pension systems in place in the U.S. and in Canada. Pity the investor who felt they were too heavily into Nortel and diversified by buying Chrysler in 2000 (scary, but very possible too).

My Views on Swine Flu

Swine Flu

Given we are at Pandemic level 5/6 you can’t blame financial bloggers from wanting to jump into the discussion as well:

Pigs Fly

With Chrysler’s bankruptcy protection there may have been other stuff that seemed unlikely a few years ago as well:

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Feel Free to Comment

  1. Thanks for the mention.

    luc: Any market outperformance is done at the expense of other investors. So, I don’t see anything wrong with trying to profit from the swine flu.

  2. I’m curious if you can profit from the swine flu (sounds bad, I know), such as investing in pharma companies that produce anti-viral meds, or meat factories which are punished and will undoubtyly recover.

  3. Canadian Capitalist

    Thanks for the mention Caj. Looking forward to meeting everyone next week. Have a great weekend!

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