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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host

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To: Boca_PETE who wrote (13218)	3/18/2001 7:38:33 PM
From: Haywood	Read Replies (1) of 42834

Like many others, I have listened to Bob for many years. Yesterday, I heard him once again going on and on about margin debt and how Mr. Greenspan was partly (or mostly) responsible for the "irrational exuberance" of NAZ 5000 because Mr. Greenspan failed to change the margin requirements (currently 50%). I believe this is absolutely ludicrous and a red herring on Bob's part. I don't have precise numbers, but I believe at the peak, margin debt was around $300 billion; today, it is around $200 billion. So, we lose over $2 trillion in NAZ market cap alone (some have the "all market" cap loss at $4 trillion) because we had an extra $100 billion for people to "play" with on margin? I don't think so. Bob needs to give this argument a rest. He is flat wrong about this. Haywood

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