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Pastimes : Techride

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To: Joana Tides who wrote (4932)10/3/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: Joana Tides  Read Replies (1) of 7442
 
Howdy! The other night i drove teens to a concert about an hour away (friends in the band) so browsed a Barnes & Noble (BKS) store for awhile (BNBN is the barnesandnoble.com '99 Spinoff from BKS )(i hold some) - bought a Fortune magazine, then went to a diner to eat and read til it was time to go pick up the kids.
I'm glad no newspapers & magazines are coming to the house anymore. The only times i buy them for waiting times like this.
This latest Fortune 10/11/99 issue is a worthwhile buy. It focuses on the individual investor phenomena of Our Times
Tells U just what stage of the product cycle Techriders are at - as in "Where It's At"! Especially interesting to look at the arrangements of the topical ads from whoever, which aren't shown online.
Here it is online.. fortune.com
And here's an article in the Trader Nation section, called "Power To The People" by Joseph Nocera. The article is all about the people of Providence R.I. (a bastion of working middle class folks) going about their stock investing with surprising savvy... (if inaccessible by link, it's in List) pathfinder.com
a quote of interest...
"One thing I wondered was whether that old Wall Street truism - that the individual investor is the canary in the mine - still made sense. I had my doubts."
last sentence...
"Which is to say, I realized in a way I hadn't before that the rise of the individual investor is not some fad that will evaporate with the next bear market. This is one of the great cultural transformations of our lifetime."
Veerrrrrrrry inttterrrrreessssstingg, hmmmmm?
909s-R-US
Joanie
ps. drop this one in The Black Mailbox? Dunno why i'm talking to myself here, thought this post was going to Peach.
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