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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: weatherman ✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: UK REITs at bargain prices.
Date: 10/02/26 5:23 PM
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actually any AI would have been more useful to supplement background work i have done.

but since you are curious why i was naive enough to expect something useful :

a. you write about eu reits near exclusively. you have reit in your name. shurgard is a UK reit.
i could care less about your performance, but wanted to know if you had considered shurgard and had any rational process for it.
shurgard is both a falling knife and non-US stock, and thus posted on this board.

b. american interest rates had a 2 decade climb to ~18%. and then a 4 decade drop after 1980 to near zero. these are long trends with a few bumps. we are currently seeing 1st-world global rates rise in unison. to claim ~10% is not a possibility seems as ridiculous as politicians claiming growth will make up for it.
many nations have exceeded 10%, some still do, and some also have high debt. and yes, they all try to intervene.

your logic seems more along the lines that since we had a pandemic, we wont have another one. because of intervention i guess.
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