About the only thing I believe in going into debt for is a house. At one time we had three as we owned some rentals and they did make us some pretty good money. We also went into debt to build a house. A calculated risk that we only hung onto for two years. John had to work two jobs and I did daycare...

"Playing with the stock market is like playing chicken with a freight train... no matter how many times you win, you only get to lose once." -- Mike Masters, profiled in Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders If you've been on planet earth over the past week...