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Europe Is Still Not Worth The Risk

Europe is again headed into decline

By Joel Ross | joelross | Updated on May 24, 2016

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For many months I have been stating that investing in Europe for long term assets was a bad risk reward play. There is simply too much political, geopolitical and financial risk. For the past few months it appeared investing in Europe was a smart move, but now the picture is much more clear, and it demonstrates by the flood of investor cash flowing rapidly out of Europe, that it is not where you want to be. It is likely that some asset purchases have worked out well, as they were probably done at a deep enough discount to work. However, overall, such investing makes no sense to me in longer term assets.

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