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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: mcg404 who wrote (16701)3/9/2002 4:47:06 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Hola Juan,

Re: Well, these "gods" might be a fantasy but they fulfill their purpose - to bring comfort to the frightened in an uncertain world...

Not to mention the profit potential:

latimes.com

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

— H.L. Mencken

"Plus ca change, la plus l'meme chose"
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